in Rhetoric, part of a discourse or speech, wherein a crime is aggravated, a praise or commendation heightened, or a narration enlarged, by an enumeration of circumstances; so as to excite the proper emotions in the souls of the auditors. Such is the pallage in Virgil, where, instead of saying merely that Turnus died, he amplifies the circumstances of his death:

> *Aff illi folcuntur frigore membra, Vitaque cum gemitu fugit indignata sub umbra.*

The matters of eloquence make an amplification to be the soul of discourse. See **ORATORY**.