For example, examples of understatement can be found in the Old English epics like Beowulf as well as Ancient Greek texts by Homer. Sometimes authors use understatement for humorous reasons, though more often it is a technique for minimizing one thing thereby emphasizing another.
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RESOLVED, ThatthisLegislative Body pause in its deliberations to memorialize Governor George E. Pataki to proclaim October 18, 2006as School BusDriver Appreciation Day in the State of New York; and be it further.