[22]
But before I proceed to demonstrate what figures
best suit the different circumstances, I must
[p. 361]
point out that their number is far from being as
great as some authorities make out. For I am not
in the least disturbed by the various names which
the Greeks more especially are so fond of inventing.
First of all, then,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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