[43]
This latter form
of wit lies not merely in sallies and brief displays of
wit, but may be developed at greater length, witness
the story told by Cicero in the second book of his
de Oratore,1
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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