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We frequently use the comparative for the
positive, as, for example, when a man speaks of
himself as being infirmior (rather indisposed).
Sometimes we join two comparatives, as in the
following passage1: si te, Catilina, comprehend, si
interfici iussero, credo erit verendum mihi, ne non potius
hoc ones boni serius a me qam quisquam crudelius
factum esse dicat.
1 Cat. I. ii. 5. “If I were to give orders that you should he apprehended and put to death, I think I should have reason to fear that all good citizens would regard my action as too tardy rather than that anyone would assert that it was too cruel.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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