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In the first place, the trope is franker in its
meaning, and, despite the fact that it implies something other than it says, makes no pretence about it.
For the context as a rule is perfectly clear, as, for
example, in the following passage from the Catilinarian orations.1 “Rejected by him, you migrated
to your boon-companion, that excellent gentleman
Metellus.” In this case the irony lies in two words,
and is therefore a specially concise form of trope.
1 I. viii. 19.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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