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Cicero

Orator Passage 93

Passage 93 of 238

Canonical reference 93

Latin

perseus-cicero-orator-lat

quod quamquam transferendo fit, tamen alio modo transtulit cum dixit Ennius arce et urbe orba sum , alio modo , si pro patria arcem dixisset ; et horridam Africam terribili tremere tumultu cum dicit pro Afris immutate Africam : hanc ὑπαλλαγήν rhetores, quia quasi summutantur verba pro verbis, μετωνυμίαν grammatici vocant,

English AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11

Although this too is accomplished through transference, Ennius used one kind of transference when he said, 'I am bereft of citadel and city,' and would have used another if he had said 'citadel' in place of 'fatherland.' Likewise, when he says that 'rugged Africa trembles with a terrible tumult,' he substitutes Africa for the Africans. Because words are, as it were, exchanged for other words, rhetoricians call this ὑπαλλαγή, hypallage, while grammarians call it μετωνυμία, metonymy,

French AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11

Bien que cette substitution s’accomplisse elle aussi par un transfert, Ennius opère un transfert d’une manière lorsqu’il dit: «Je suis privée de citadelle et de cité», et d’une autre s’il disait «citadelle» à la place de «patrie». Lorsqu’il dit que «l’effrayante Afrique tremble d’un terrible tumulte», il substitue «Afrique» à «Africains». Parce que les mots sont pour ainsi dire échangés contre d’autres mots, les rhéteurs appellent cette figure ὑπαλλαγή, et les grammairiens μετωνυμία,

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