De Oratore, Rhetorica Tomus I. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Wilkins, Augustus S. (Augustus Samuel), d. 1905, editor
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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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