![]() ![]() ![]() One is defined as the form of language, while the other is mainly to be sought in the arrangement of words. 2 But to proceed, figures of speech fall into two main classes. I might quote a thousand other examples, and only wish I could say that the changes were not often changes for the worse. For example, we say invidere hac re for to "grudge a thing," instead of hanc rem, which was the idiom of all the ancients, more especially Cicero, and incumbere illi (to lean upon him) for incumbere in illum, plenum vino (full of wine) for plenum vini, and huic adulari (to flatter him) for hunc adulari. Consequently when we compare the language of our ancestors with our own, we find that practically everything we say nowadays is figurative. 3 1 Figures of speech have always been liable to change and are continually in process of change in accordance with the variations of usage.
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