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Finally, loquacity of this kind and a disorderly mass of empty grandiloquence is scored with striking epithets by Aristophanes, wittiest of poets, in the following lines: Frogs, 837 ff., Rogers (L. C. L.). The epithets are applied to Aeschylus! A stubborn-creating, stubborn-pulling fellow, Uncurbed, unfettered, uncontrolled of speech, Unperiphrastic, bombastiloquent. And no less pointedly did our forefathers also call men of that kind, who were drowned in words, "babblers, gabbllers and chatterboxes."
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That those words of Quadrigarius in the third book of his Annals, there a thousand of men is killed, are not used arbitrarily or by a poetic figure, but in accordance with a definite and approved rule of the science of grammar.
