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and
include it among figures of speech. When, however,
such exclamations are genuine, they do not come
under the head of our present topic: it is only those
which are simulated and artfully designed which can
with any certainty be regarded as figures. The same
is true of free speech, which Corificius1 calls licence,
and the Greeks παῤῥησία. For what has less of the
figure about it than true freedom? On the other
hand, freedom of speech may frequently be made a
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cloak for flattery.
1 The author of Auct. ad Herennium, iv. 36.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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