(from βραχύς and λόγος "ex- pression"), in Rhetoric, the expressing anything in the most concise manner. This, so far as consistent with periphrasis, is a virtue and beauty of style; but if ob- scurely be the consequence, which is often the case, it becomes a blemish and inexcusable defect.—Quintilian gives an instance of brachylogy from Sallust: "Mitridates corpore ingenti perinde armatus;" "Mitridates, as it were, armed with the huge size of his stature."