[386]. Some moderns (notably Campbell in his Philosophy of Rhetoric) have followed Quintilian in this use of the word for “style.” But the accepted sense in English is too well settled for this to be permissible.
[387]. The use of undignified expression, as “a wart of stone” on a mountain.
[388]. Not in its usual equivalence with litotes, but in the sense of cursory and elliptic reference.
[389]. Affected excess in any direction, whether ornate or plain.
[390]. Chiefly from Virgil and Cicero.
[391]. Subsistit: or perhaps “comes to a halt,” “stops dead.”
[392]. Insistere invicem nequeant: or perhaps “are unable to lean upon each other,” “to come close to each other,” “to stand in each other’s shoes.”
[393]. Neque enim me movent nomina illa, quæ fingere utique Græcis promptissimum est.
[394]. And, it may be added, pretty closely connected with the mania for insisting that literary criticism shall perpetually mix itself up with ethics and psychology.
[395]. This famous horror of the insolens, the inusitatum verbum, is the very dominant note of all Latin criticism, and will recur constantly.