pleonasm

pleonasm: plĕonasmus (Gk. πλεονασμός): Mart. Cap.: written by Quint. as Greek, and defined as, vitium adjectionis, Inst. 1, 5, 40: also as, abundans super necessitatem oratio, Caecil. ib. 9, 3, 46. Modern writers use, *abundantia loquendi.