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[99] But by far the most trivial form of figure is that which turns on a single word, although we find such a figure directed against Clodia by Cicero1: “Especially when everybody thought her the friend of all men rather than the enemy of any.”

1 pro Cael. xiii. 32. The “word” is amica, which means either “mistress” or “friend.”

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