THE NEW WINNER IS
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus,
who in his Institutes of Oratory 8.6. 68.
cites a stomach-turning hyperbole by Cicero
“In hyperbole we may say more than the actual facts, as when Cicero attacks an enemy by saying, "He vomited and filled his lap and the whole tribunal with fragments of food.”
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