Institutio Oratoria

Quintilian

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

In this case the details are massed together, but they may equally be distributed or dissipated, as I think Cicero says. For example:

  1. Here corn, there grapes, elsewhere the growth of trees
  2. More freely rises,
Georg. i. 54.
with the remainder of the passage.

A wonderful

v7-9 p.469
mixture of figures may be found in Cicero [*](From the lost speech against Q. Metellus.) in the following passage, where the first word is repeated last after a long interval, while the middle corresponds with the beginning, and the concluding words with the middle.
Yours is the work which we find here, conscript fathers, not mine, a fine piece of work too, but, as I have said, not mine, but yours.
This frequent repetition, which,