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In so doing
we speak as if every kind of language possessed a
figure: for example cursitare and lectitare1 are said
to have the same figure, that is to say, they are
identical in formation. Therefore in the first and
common sense of the word everything is expressed
by figures. If we are content with this view, there
is good reason for the opinion expressed by Apollodorus (if we may trust the statement of Caecilius on
this point) to the effect that he found the rules laid
down in this connexion quite incomprehensible.
1 Frequentative forms of curro (run) and lego (read).
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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