Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, ed. Harold Edgeworth Butler, 9.3.49

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[49] cui non adsentior, cum sit unius figurae, mixta quoque et idem et diversum significantia, quod et ipsum διαλλαγὴν vocant. quaero ab inimicis, sintne haec investigate, comperta, ¹ patefacta, sublata, deleta, exstincta per me. investigata , comperta, patefacta aliud ostendunt; sublata, deleta, extincta sunt inter se similia, sed non etiam prioribus.

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

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[49] or when we concede to our opponents qualities which we are unwilling that they should seem to possess. This is specially effective when we possess these qualities and they do not, as in the following passage, ¹

Brand me as coward, Drances, since thy sword

Has slain such hosts of Trojans.

A like result is produced by reversing this method when we pretend to own to faults which are not ours or which even recoil upon the heads of our opponents, as for example,

'Twas I that led the Dardan gallant on

To storm the bridal bed of Sparta's queen!

Aen. x. 92. Juno ironically pretends to have brought about the rape of Helen, which was in reality the work of Venus.

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1. before patefacta MSS. give idē or id est, which, if pate. facta be correct, must be deleted. alternately Halm deletes id est patefacta as a gloss, also expunging deleta.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 9.3.49

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