[396]. I.e., suppressed sneering.
[397]. Trope = an expression altered from its natural and obvious sense. Figure = an expression differing in form from the ordinary mode.
[398]. In the technical sense of “taking the audience into confidence,” of asking the jury what they would do in such a case, &c.
[399]. Sciens being used for scitus and pugnæ for pugnandi, and each use of one word for another being reckoned as one figure.
[400]. Deliberate repetition.
[401]. Antithetic distinction.
[402]. Concession in order to strengthen argument.
[403]. Pretended reticence, implying what is meant.
[404]. Said to be an iambic decasyllable—hobbling enough!
[405]. Εἷς δύο τρεῖσ· ὁ δὲ δὴ τέταρτος ἡμῶν ὧ φίλε. The first words to δὴ make the beginning of a hexameter or a penthemimer elegiac, the whole, omitting Εἷς, a very “lolloping” iambic trimeter, while ὁ to ἡμῶν is an Anacreontic. Plato would certainly have retorted that where so many metres are possible no one can arise distinctly, and therefore disagreeably, to the ear.