Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 8.6.57

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[57] Further, we may employ allegory, and disguise bitter taunts in gentle words I y way of wit, or we may indicate our meaning by saying exactly the contrary or. . . ¹ If the Greek names for these methods are unfamiliar to any of my readers, I would remind him that they are σαρκασμός, ἀστεϊσμός, ἀντίφρασις and παροιμία (sarcasm, urbane wit, contradiction and proverbs).

Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator). Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.

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[57] praeter haec usus est allegoriae, ut tristia dicamus mollioribus ¹ verbis urbanitatis ² gratia aut quaedam contrariis significemus aliud textum spectaco et enumeravimus. ³ Haec si quis ignorat, quibus Graeci nominibus appellent, σαρκασμόν, ἀστεϊσμόν, ἀντίφρασιν, παροιμίαν dici sciat. sunt etiam,

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1. The passage is hopelessly corrupt. The concluding portion of the sentence must have referred to the use of proverbs, of which it may have contained an example. This is clear from the next sentence. Sarcasm, urbane wit and contradiction are covered by the first three clauses, but there has been no allusion to proverbs such as παροιμία demands.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 8.6.57

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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