Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, ed. Harold Edgeworth Butler, 8.6.43

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[43] duo vero ¹ uni apposita ne uersum quidem decuerint. sunt autem, quibus non videatur hic omnino tropus, quia nihil vertat. nec est semper, ² sed id quod est ³ appositum, si a proprio diviseris, per se significat et facit antonomasiam. nam si dicas, ille qui Numantiam et Carthaginem evertit, antonomasia est; si adieceris Scipio , appositum. non potest ergo esse seiunctum. ⁴

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

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Institutio Oratoria Perseus (Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria, Volume 1-4. Butler, Harold Edgeworth, translator. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press, William Heinemann Ltd., 1920-1922.) — 8.6.43 focus

[43] Be this as it may, two epithets directly attached to one noun are unbecoming even in verse. There are some writers who refuse to regard an epithet as a trope, on the ground that it involves no change. It is not always a trope, but if separated from the word to which it belongs, it has a significance of its own and forms an antonomasia. For if you say,

The man who destroyed Numantia and Carthage,

it will be an antonomasia, whereas, if you add the word

Scipio,

the phrase will be an epithet. An epithet therefore cannot stand by itself.

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Institutio Oratoria

1. quocunque vero, Spalding : queque verba, MSS.

2. nec, Spalding : necesse, MSS.

3. sed id quod est, cod. Paris 7530: sed cum id est AG.

4. seiunctum, Christ : iunctum, MSS.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 8.6.43

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