Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, ed. Harold Edgeworth Butler, 8.6.37

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[37] superest ex his, quae aliter significant, metalepsis, id est transumptio, quae ex alio tropo id alium velut viam praestat; * nisi id comoediis ¹ et rarissimus et improbissimus, Graecis tamen frequentior, qui Centaurum qui Χείρων est Ἥσσονα et insulas ὀξείας θοάς² dicunt. nos quis ferat, si Verrem suem aut Aelium Catum doctum nominemus?

Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. ed. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.

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[37] There is but one of the tropes involving change of meaning which remains to be discussed, namely, metalepsis or transumption, which provides a transition from one trope to another. It is (if we except comedy) but rarely used in Latin, and is by no means to be commended, though it is not infrequently employed by the Greeks, who, for example, call Χείρων the centaur Ἥσσων¹ and substitute the epithet θοαί (swift) for ὄξειαι² in referring to sharp-pointed islands. But who would endure a Roman if he called Verres sus³ or changed the name of Aelius Catus to Aelius doctus?

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1. I have added hie nisi id conoediis, cp. 39 below.

2. Centaurum, Regius : scient aurum, AG.: Ἥσσονα , Meister : hoccona, AG : insulas oxias thoas, cod. par . 7530: insulamn ΕΜΨΙΑΣΘΟΑΣ AG.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 8.6.37

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