(from βραχυς, short, and λογις, expression), in Rhetoric, the expressing of any thing in the most concise manner. This, as far as is consistent with perspicuity, is a virtue and beauty of style; but if obscurity be the consequence, which is often the case, it becomes a blemish and defect. Quintilian gives an instance of brachylogy from Sallust: "Mithridates corpore ingenti perinde aruitus;" "Mithridates, as it were, armed with the huge-ness of his stature."