Before revision: As Gordon Williams states in introducing his study on Figures of Thought in Roman Poetry, "Language was subject to ordering by exhaustive description of vocabulary, syntax, and figures ; content was likewise subject to ordering by the rules of inventio : the technique by which all the latent or inherent possibilities in a given idea or cluster of ideas could be 'discovered' and exploited .
After revision: As Gordon Williams states in introducing his study on Figures of Thought in Roman Poetry, "Language was subject to ordering by exhaustive description of vocabulary, syntax, and figures .The content was likewise subject to ordering by the rules of inventio () the technique by which all the latent or inherent possibilities in a given idea or cluster of ideas could be 'discovered' and exploited .