[2]
I propose to disregard such quibbles as in no wise
concern the training of an orator, and to proceed
to discuss those tropes which are most necessary and
meet with most general acceptance, contenting
myself merely with noting the fact that some tropes
are employed to help out our meaning and others to
adorn our style, that some arise from words used
properly and others from words used metaphorically,
and that the changes involved concern not merely
individual words, but also our thoughts and the
structure of our sentences.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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