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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Marco Comunetti and published on 02/04/2020.

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The existence of an Aristotle who composed a manual On Pleonasm is attested by Diogenes Laertius¹ (5, 35), who describes him as a γραμματικὸς ἄσημος, “an obscure grammarian”, at the end of a list of eight me…