# Institutio Oratoria 8.6.28

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 8, Chapter 6. Latin.

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est etiam huic tropo quaedam cum synecdoche vicinia. nam , cum dico vultus hominis pro vultu, dico pluraliter quod singulare est; sed non id ago, ut unum ex multis intelligatur (nam id est manifestum), sed nomen immuto ; et cum aurata tecta aurea, pusillum a vero discedo, quia non est nisi pars auratura. quae singula persequi minutioris est curae etiam non oratorem instruentibus. antonomasia ,

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