Institutio Oratoria
Quintilian
Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria, Volume 1-4. Butler, Harold Edgeworth, translator. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press, William Heinemann Ltd., 1920-1922.
To this figure is opposed distinction, which they call παραδιαστολή, by which we distinguish between similar things, as in this sentence: [*](Rutil. i. 4. )
When you call yourself wise instead of astute, brave instead of rash, economical instead of mean.But this is entirely dependent on definition, and therefore I have my doubts whether it can be called a figure. Its opposite occurs when we pass at a bound from one thing to something different, as though from like to like; for example:
with what follows.Hor A.P. 25.
- I labour to be brief, I turn obscure,
There is a third class of figures which attracts the ear of the audience and excites their attention by some resemblance, equality or contrast of words. To this class belongs paronomasia, which we call adnominatio. This may be effected in different ways. It may depend on the resemblance of one word to another which has preceded, although the words are in different cases. Take the following passage from Domitius Afer's defence of Cloatilla: Mulier omnium rerum imiperita, in omnnibus rebus infelix. [*](A woman unskilled in everything and in everything unhappy.)