Kitap 9
2.63
We may further lend charm to our speech by deferring the discussion of some points after just mentioning them, thus depositing them in the safe keeping of the judge's memory and afterwards reclaiming our deposit; or we may employ some figure to enable us to repeat certain points (for repetition is not in itself a figure) or may make especial mention of certain things and vary the aspect of our pleading. For eloquence delights in variety, and just as the eye is more strongly attracted by the sight of a number of different things, so oratory supplies a continuous series of novelties to rivet the attention of the mind.
2.64
Emphasis may be numbered among figures also, when some hidden meaning is extracted from some phrase, as in the following passage from Virgil: Might I not have lived, From wedlock free, a life without a stain, Happy as beasts are happy? Aen. iv. 550. For although Dido complains of marriage, yet her passionate outburst shows that she regards life without wedlock as no life for man, but for the beasts of the field. A different kind of emphasis is found in Ovid, where Zmyrna confesses to her nurse her passion for her father in the following words: O mother, happy in thy spouse! Met. x. 422.
