Book II. Figures

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_.