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Another figure
produced by omission is that of which I have just
spoken,1 when the connecting particles are omitted.
A third is the figure known as ἐπεζευγμένον in which
a number of clauses are all completed by the same
verb, which would be required by each singly if they
stood alone. In such cases the verb to which the
rest of the sentence refers may come first, as in the
following instance: Vicit pudorem lilido, timiorem
audacia, rationem amentia.2 Or it may come last,
closing a number of clauses, as in the following:3
Neque enim is es, Catilina, ut te aut pudor unquam a
turpitudine ant meites a periculo aut ratio a furore revocaverit.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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