exaggerabant

Updated: May 23, 2025

With vulgarisms like bene magni, in opere distenti, and inaccuracies like ad ignoscendum for ad se excusandum, quam opimam for quam optimam, he combines quotations from Ennius, e.g. hic pes pede premitur, armis teruntur arma, and rhetorical constructions, e.g. alteri alteris non solum mortem morti exaggerabant, sed tumulos tumulis exaequabant.

Charles Thomas Cruttwell - The History of Roman Literature : From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius