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Simile has a force not unlike that of example, more
especially when drawn from things nearly equal
without any admixture of metaphor, as in the following case: “Just as those who have been accustomed
to receive bribes in the Campus Martius are specially
hostile to those whom they suspect of having withheld
the money, so in the present case the judges came
into court with a strong prejudice against the
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accused.”1
1 pro Cluent. xxvii. 75.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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