De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
Sed scitis esse notissimum ridiculi genus, cum aliud exspectamus, aliud dicitur: hic nobismet ipsis noster error risum movet: quod si admixtum est etiam ambiguum, fit salsius; ut apud Novium videtur esse misericors ille, qui iudicatum duci videt: percontatur ita: "quanti addictus?" "Mille nummum." Si addidisset tantummodo "ducas licet"; esset illud genus ridiculi praeter exspectationem; sed quia addidit "nihil addo, ducas licet"; addito ambiguo altero genere ridiculi, fuit, ut mihi quidem videtur, salsissimus. Hoc tum est venustum, cum in altercatione arripitur ab adversario verbum et ex eo, ut a Catulo in Philippum, in eum ipsum aliquid, qui lacessivit, infligitur.
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Sed cum plura sint ambigui genera, de quibus est doctrina quaedam subtilior, attendere et aucupari verba oportebit; in quo, ut ea, quae sint frigidiora, vitemus,—est enim cavendum, ne arcessitum dictum putetur—permulta tamen acute dicemus. Alterum genus est, quod habet parvam verbi immutationem, quod in littera positum Graeci vocant παρονομασίαν, ut "Nobiliorem mobiliorem" Cato; aut, ut idem, cum cuidam dixisset "eamus deambulatum" et ille "quid opus fuit de?" "Immo vero" inquit "quid opus fuit te?" Aut eiusdem responsio
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