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Phalereus is particularly fond of these usages, and they are very agreeable; and although there is a great deal of metaphor in his speaking, yet there is no one who makes a more frequent use of the metonymia. Discussions of wide application and extensive learning are explained in it, and common topics are treated without any impetuosity.
The rhetoricians call this "hypallage," because one word as it were is substituted for another. The grammarians call it "metonymia," because names are transferred. When many metaphors succeed one another uninterruptedly the sort of oration becomes entirely changed.
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