It is the instrument of society; therefore Mercury, who is
the
president
of language, is called _deorum hominumque interpres_.
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems
????????????.--_Metaphora_. Speech is the
only benefit man hath to express his excellency of mind above other
creatures.
It is the instrument of society; therefore Mercury, who is
the
president
of language, is called _deorum hominumque interpres_.
{110a} In all speech, words and sense are as the body and the soul. The
sense is as the life and soul of language, without which all words are
dead. Sense is wrought out of experience, the knowledge of human life
and actions, or of the liberal arts, which the Greeks called
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