This library is built in the open.
If you spot an error, have a suggestion, or just want to say hello — we’d love to hear from you.
Susenbrot, Johannes · 1563

They are said to be those who, holding themselves above mortals, seem to be kin to the gods. Cognate. Mi: it is in place.
8 Charientismus graceful mockery, is when we mitigate harsh things with softer words, or when harsher realities are softened by gracious language. Terence: "Good words, I pray," when Davus was entreating his past behavior. Which Plato in Book 1 of the Republic called εὐφημεῖν to speak well, that is, to say things with good omens. It is derived from the verb χαριεντίζομαι I jest gracefully, that is, I jest facetiously, and I use pleasant urbanity and wit. We use this trope especially when we wish to soothe an angry and perturbed mind with words. And thus far regarding the species of Allegory.
From ὑπερβάλλω I exceed/surpass.
Hyperbole exaggeration, is when a statement or speech exceeds the truth for the sake of increasing or diminishing. Mancinellus:
A manifest transcending of the truth will be Hyperbola. It is also called Superlatio, lying overstatement, Eminence, and Excess: such as "swifter than the wings of lightning." "They barely cling to their bones." This is not employed so that what we say is believed, but so that, from that which is incredible, something nearly incredible is believed. Every Hyperbole is beyond belief, yet it should not be beyond measure.
The virtue of Hyperbole: May hunger for the leaf hold you.
EXAMPLE
Lying boasting
Do not cast the little flower away The German phrase "Das bleslin nit zcwyt werffen" suggests not discarding the essence of an argument., otherwise, no other path is more accustomed to lead to inconclusio? a state of being inconclusive. Hyperbole lies, indeed, not so that it wishes to deceive with a lie, but so that through it we may arrive at the truth. Briefly, Hyperbole says more than the matter holds, yet what is true is understood from the false. As: "He could shatter stones with his talkativeness." "To touch the heavens with one's finger," "He terrifies the sky with weapons," "It strikes the stars with its waves." "I am dissolving with laughter."
Which is clean with its own grace. As if you were to name someone a Nestor, you give him honor; in reality, it is so, and in that, it becomes eloquent. Proverbs: That a frightened mouth determines... which is pharing dilitu in Trgosties a seco cas?.
Thus Book 7 of the Aeneid: on the Cyclops: And Book 7 of the Aeneid: on Camilla. She could fly over the tops of the untouched grain, nor would she have harmed the tender ears in her course.