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Sometimes,
again, one hyperbole may be heightened by the
addition of another, as when Cicero in denouncing
Antony says:1 “What Charybdis was ever so
voracious? Charybdis, do I say? Nay, if Charybdis
ever existed, she was but a single monster. By
heaven, even Ocean's self, methinks, could scarce
have engulfed so many things, so widely scattered
in such distant places, in such a twinkling of the
eye.”
1 Phil. II. xxvii. 67.
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