apophasis

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τὸ δὲ ποιεῖν ἄνευ νοῦ ἃ δοκεῖ καὶ σὺ ὁμολογεῖς κακὸν εἶναι: ἢ οὔ → but doing what one thinks fit without intelligence is—as you yourself admit, do you not?—an evil

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

ăpŏphăsis: is, f., = ἀπόφασις> (denial), rhet. fig.,
I whereby one, as it were, answers himself, Jul. Rufin. 8.