The Only Use of
figure of speech
in
The Apology, by Plato
- For if you kill me you will not easily find a successor to me, who, if I may use such a ludicrous figure of speech, am a sort of gadfly, given to the state by God; and the state is a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life.†
Definition:
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense; e.g., metaphors, similes, and hyperbole