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The latter, though not avoided
with special care even by the best authors, may
sometimes be regarded as a fault: it is, in fact, a
blemish into which Cicero not infrequently falls
through indifference to such minor details: take, for
example, the following passage,1 “Judges, this
judgment was not merely unlike a judgment.”
It is sometimes given another name, ἐπανάληψις, under
which appellation it is ranked among figures, of
which I shall give examples when I come to the
discussion of stylistic virtues.2
1 Pro Cluent. xxxv. 96. To bring out the effect criticised by Cicero, iudicium must he translated “judgment.” But “trial” is required to give the correct sense. ἐπανάληψις = repetition.
2 IX. ii.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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