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He also points out that a metaphor
must not be too great for its subject or, as is more
frequently the case, too little, and that it must not
be inappropriate. Anyone who realises that these
are faults, will be able to detect instances of them
only too frequently. But excess in the use of metaphor is also a fault, more especially if they are of the
same species.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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