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Worst of all are the
phrases which the Greeks call ἀδιανόητα, that is to
say, expressions which, though their meaning is
obvious enough on the surface, have a secret meaning, as for example in the phrase cum ductus est
caecus secundam viam stare, or where the man, who
is supposed in the scholastic theme to have torn his
own limbs with his teeth, is said to have lain upon
himself1
1 Like a wild beast devouring his prey.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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