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First there were the figurae verborum, or figures of language, which sought agreeable sounds alone or in combination, such as antitheses, rhymes, and assonances. Then the figurae sententiarum, or figures of thought, such as rhetorical questions, hints, and exclamations. Quintilian classifies as tropes words or phrases converted from their proper signification to another.
Inter omnes prophetas ponunt quatuor excellentiores, quorum supremum et excellentissimum fatentur Iesum Mariae Virginis filium, quem et asserunt, sermonem, vel loquelam, vel spiritum Dei, et pronunciatorem sententiarum Dei, in iudicio generali futuro, et missum a Deo ad Christianos docendos. Secundo loco Abrahamum dicunt fuisse verum Dei cultorem, et amicum.
As for the epithet probabili, he 'never reflected upon it without almost a triumphant feeling in its felicity. Nevertheless he would change it into 'poetae sententiarum et verborum ponderibus admirabili. Yet these words, 'energetic and sonorous' though they were, 'fill one with a secret and invincible loathing, because they tend to introduce into the epitaph a character of magnificence. With every fresh objection he rose in importance.
It would be right practically to distinguish the Radical from the Whig; and yet it might shock Duns or Lombardus, the magister sententiarum, when he came to understand that partially the principles of Radicals and Whigs coincide. To be free from all bias, and to begin his review of sects in that temper, he must begin by being an infidel.
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