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Again it may be employed as a means of transition, as, for example, From thepro Cornelio. Cominius, however— nay, pardon me, gentlemen. This last instance also involves digression, if indeed digression is to be counted among figures, since some authorities regard it as forming one of the parts of a speech. cp. xv. iii. 12. For at this point the orator diverges to sing the praises of Gnaeus Pompeius, which he might have done without any recourse to aposiopesis.
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For as Cicero From the passage quoted IX. i. 28. says, the shorter form of digression may be effected in a number of different ways. The following passages will, however, suffice as examples: Then Gaius Varenus, that is, the Varenus who was killed by the slaves of Ancharius:—I beg you, gentlemen, to give careful attention to what I am about to say From the lost pro Varcno. ; the second is from the pro Milone xii. 33. : Then he turned on me that glance, which it was his wont to assume, when he threatened all the world with every kind of violence.
