[72]
Cicero has imitated his method in the following
[p. 343]
passage from the Verrines:1 “After long lapse of
years the Sicilians saw dwelling in their midst, not
a second Dionysius or Phalaris (for that island has
produced many a cruel tyrant in years gone by), but
a new monster with all the old ferocity once familiar
to those regions. For, to my thinking, neither Scylla
nor Charybdis were ever such foes as he to the ships
that sailed those same narrow seas.”
1 v. vi. 145.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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