Institutio Oratoria

Quintilian

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

as I have said, is produced by a mixture of figures, is called πλοκὴ by the Greeks: a letter of Cicero [*](Now lost.) to Brutus will provide a further example.

When I had made my peace with Appius Claudius and made it through the agency of Gnaeus Pompeius, when then I had made my peace,
etc.

The like effect may be produced in the same sentence by repeating the same words in different forms, as in Persius:

  1. Is then to know in thee
  2. Nothing unless another know thou knowest?
i. 26. The translation is Watson's.
and in Cicero, [*](Origin unknown.) where he says,
For it was impossible for the judges as well to be condemned by their own judgement.