[16]
For the
same things are often put in different ways and
the sense remains unaltered though the words are
changed, while a figure of thought may include several
figures of speech. For the former lies in the conception, the latter in the expression of our thought.
The two are frequently combined, however, as in
the following passage: “Now, Dolabella, [I have
no pity] either for you or for your children”:1 for
the device by which he turns from the judges to
Dolabella is a figure of thought, while iam iam ( “now”）
and liberum (“your children”) are figures of speech.
1 Cic. Verr. I. xxx. 77. iam iam is a figure, as being a reduplication, and liberum as being a contraction.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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