“But we have travelled o'er a boundless space;[p. 457] Or we may speak of the plural in the singular, as in the following case2:
”
“Like the fierce Roman in his country's arms.
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There are also figures like the
following, which, though far from being solecisms,
alter the number and are also usually included
among tropes. We may speak of a single thing in
the plural, as in the following instance1:
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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