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[22] This device may also serve to carry off a jest, as in the passage of Cicero where he talks of the
little sprat of a boy who slept with his elder sister,
1
or where he speaks of
Flavius, who put out the eyes of crows,
2
or, again, in the
pro Milone,
3
cries,
Hi, there! Rufio!
and talks of
Erucius Antoniaster.
4
On the other hand, this practice becomes more obtrusive when employed in the schools, like the phrase that was so much praised in my boyhood,
Give your father bread,
or in the same declamation,
You feed even your dog.
5
But such tricks do not always come off, Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator). Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.
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