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... illum ambiguum novus insuper nuntius contumeliae exstimulat: quippe egressus...

nuntius contumeliae: as Furneaux, explains this phrase, "novus . . . nuntius : by hypallage=' novae contumeliae nuntius.'" Hypallage is the the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty.”