BRACHYLOGY, βραχυλογία, in rhetoric, the expressing any thing in the most concise manner. This, as far as is consistent with perspicuity, is a beauty and virtue of the style; but if obscurity be the consequence, which is often the case, it becomes a blemish, and inexcusable defect. Quintilian gives us an instance of brachylogy from Sallust: Mithridates corpore ingenti perinde armatus; "Mithridates armed, as it were, with the hugeness of his stature." See BREVITY.