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I have found some who call this also by the name
of πλοκή: but I do not agree, as only one figure is
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involved. We may also find a mixture of words,
some identical and others different in meaning; of
this figure, which the Greeks style διαλλαγή, the
following will provide an example: “I ask my
enemies whether these plots were investigated,
discovered and laid bare, overthrown, crushed and
destroyed by me.”1 In this sentence “investigated,” “discovered” and “laid bare” are different
in meaning, while “overthrown,” “crushed” and
“destroyed” are similar in meaning to each other,
but different from the three previous.
1 From the lost speech in Q. Metullum.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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