[21]
There
is a similar form of amplification which is effected by
reference to something which appears to have been
said with quite another purpose in view. The chiefs
of Troy1 think it no discredit that Trojan and Greek
should endure so many woes for so many years all
for the sake of Helen's beauty. How wondrous,
then, must her beauty have been! For it is not
Paris, her ravisher, that says this; it is not some
youth or one of the common herd; no, it is the
elders, the wisest of their folk, the counsellors of
Priam.
1 Il. iii. 156.
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