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On tile other hand
the conceit employed by Euripides1 where he makes
Eteocles taunt his brother Polynices on the ground
that his name is evidence of character, is feeble in
the extreme. Still a name will often provide the
subject for a jest,2 witness the frequent jests of
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Cicero on the name of Verres. Such, then, and the
like are the accidents of persons. It is impossible
to deal with them all either here or in other portions
of this work, and I must content myself with pointing out the lines on which further enquiry should
proceed.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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