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A more trivial effect is produced by
the following: Non Pisonum, sed pistorum,1 and Ex
oratore arator,2 while phrases such as Ne patres conscripti videantur circumscripti,3 or raro evenit, sed vehenenter venit,4 are the worst of all. It does, however,
sometimes happen that a bold and vigorous conception may derive a certain charm from the contrast
between two words not dissimilar in sound.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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