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[37] Or speech may be inserted without any mention of the speaker, as in the line:
1
This involves a mixture of
figures, since to
impersonalion we add the
figure known as
ellipse, which in this case consists in the omission of any indication as to who is speaking. At times
impersonation takes the form of narrative. Thus we find indirect speeches in the historians, as at the opening of Livy's first book
2
:
Here the Dolopian host
Camped, here the fierce Achilles pitched his tent.
That cities, like other things, spring from the humblest origins, and that those who are helped by their own valour and the favour of heaven subsequently win great power and a great name for themselves.
Apostrophe also, Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator). Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.
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