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A wonderful
[p. 469]
mixture of figures may be found in Cicero1 in the
following passage, where the first word is repeated
last after a long interval, while the middle corresponds with the beginning, and the concluding words
with the middle. “Yours is the work which we
find here, conscript fathers, not mine, a fine piece of
work too, but, as I have said, not mine, but yours.”
This frequent repetition, which,
1 From the lost speech against Q. Metellus.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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