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Sometimes, however, a lucky
chance may give us an opportunity of employing
such jests with effect, as for instance when Cicero
in the pro Caecina1 says of the witness Sextus
Clodius Phormio, “He was not less black or less
bold than the Phormio of Terence.”
1 x. 27. The reference must be to the make-up of Phormio on the stage: there is nothing in the play to suggest the epithet “black.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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