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* Paraphrase for the noun substantive "idiot." It is also a specimen of the Greek figure "litotes."
Lac concretum. Called caseus by Caes. But the Germans, though they lived so much on milk, did not understand the art of making cheese, see Pliny, N.H. 11, 96. Guen. Apparatu. Luxurious preparation. Blandimentis. Dainties. Haud minus facile. Litotes for multo facilius. Ebrietati. Like the American Aborigines, see note, Sec. 15. XXIV. Nudi. See note, Sec. 20. Quibus id ludicrum.
It is possible that he may have used some expressions in an oblique sense; there are several kinds of cases where this occurs: allegory and symbolism, jests and hoaxes, allusion and implication, even the ordinary figures of speech, metaphor, hyperbole, litotes.