“exaggeration” in Latin

amplificatio (Cic., Quint., to which nimia may be added): superlatio or trajectio, with or without veritatis (both = hyperbolical exaggeration): exsuperatio (technical term of oratory = cum plus dictum est, quam patitur veritas, augendae suspicionis causa; Auct., Herenn., 4, 53, 67): immoderatio verborum (Cic., Sull., 10, 30): Lying exaggeration, ementiens superjectio (Quint., 8, 6, 67): an allowable exaggeration, decens veri superjectio (Quint.). To avoid all exaggeration (at the expense of truth), veritatis fidem servare: an exaggeration, res immoderatione verborum elata (after Cic., Sull., 10, 30); *res multis partibus aucta (after Caes.), or in majus aucta: this is an exaggeration, plus dictum est, quam patitur veritas (Auct., ad Herenn., 4, 53, 67); hoc in majus auctum est: the news was brought to Rome, and even with the addition of alarming exaggerations, haec majore tumultu etiam, quam res erat, Romam nuntiantur (Liv. 4, 56). ☞ Not exaggeratio (though Gell. has exaggeratio quaedam speciosa orationis); but quasi quaedam exaggeratio alicujus rei might, perhaps, be used in some constructions, after Cic. (who has animi - quasi quaedam exaggeratio).