... Epitome troporum ac schematum et grammaticorum & rhetorum, ad authores tum prophanos tum sacros intelligendos non minus utilis quam necessaria

See Ennius, for Fabius the Delayer restored the Roman state. They find other places too, of the whole man, in the annotations.

Nay, in Plato and Aristotle, such as "more envious than Zoilus," "more severe than Cato," "more inhuman than Timon."

See Apophthegms by Erasmus.

Cares, a soldier for wages. See the Mysians, who were once strong.

See Sinecta ore, and a soft fruit-bearing thing.

The use of this trope is more frequent among poets. It is rarer in contempt. It is appropriate for a grave figure of speech, and should be applied to the demonstrative and deliberative genus. Compare with other places to be used, especially in similitude and translation, and it is not rarely applied. This pertains to the parts of speech, to confirmation and confutation, for the young and the most enraged, and Georg. Whose witness: Jesus. Hyperbole may also be in use for blame, in vituperations, and among rustics, in which there is an innate desire of nature for increasing or diminishing things, in which... T.

GRAMMATICAL SCHEMATA

...more flattering than Gnatho, more confident than Phormio, more crafty than Davus, more bland than Thais. Seventh, from the persons of history, as "more envious than Zoilus," "more severe than Cato," "more inhuman than Timon," "more cruel than Phalaris," "richer than Croesus," "poorer than Codrus," "more delaying than Fabius," "more patient than Socrates," "more robust than Milo," "more forgetful than Curio," etc.
8 Eighth, it is taken from nations, as "more perfidious than a Punic," "harsher than a Scythian," "more lying than a Cretan," "shorter than a Pygmy," "more effeminate than the Milesians," "more useless than a Carian," "more inhospitable than the Scythotauri." 9 Ninth, finally, it is drawn from professions, as "more perjured than a pimp," "softer than a debauched man," "more boastful than a soldier," "sadder than an Areopagite," "more violent than a tyrant," "more savage than an executioner," etc. Furthermore, Hyperbole differs from Amplification in that the former exceeds the measure of nature, while the latter stays within the limits of belief.

Annotation.
The aforementioned Tropes, namely Allegory, Paroemia, and Irony, also contribute not insignificantly to the adornment of speech. Paroemia is also not rarely applied for the sake of confirmation. Furthermore, the use of all those Tropes, besides Fabius, is abundantly taught by D. Erasmus in his commentaries on the double copia. 1.6: de copiae.

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ON SCHEMATA.

What a SCHEMA is, has been defined above in the front. Schemata are of two kinds: Grammatical and Rhetorical. Grammatical ones themselves are divided into two parts...