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Chapter XVIII: Book II: Figures

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The second book, on stylistic ornament (_ornatus_, _dignitas_) is devoted to the traditional figures. These are the same list from the _Rhetorica ad Herennium_ as serves for the _poetriæ_, and are rehearsed in the same order.

The author even excuses himself for not providing new examples.
The book closes with three lists of vices in sense or sound:
(1) achirologia, etc., as in Alexandre de Villedieu; (2)
_repetitio_, etc., as in _ad Herennium_; (3) six derived from
_Ars poetica_.

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