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Sometimes, however, in such forms
of communication we may add something unexpected,
a device which is in itself a figure, as Cicero does in
the Verrines: “What then? What think you?
Perhaps you expect to hear of some theft or plunder.”1
Then, after keeping the minds of the judges in
suspense for a considerable time, he adds something
much worse. This figure is termed suspension by
Celsus. It has two forms.
1 v. 5. 10.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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