antistrophe

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

antistrŏphē, ēs, f., = ἀντιστροφή.

I In the chorus of the Greek and Roman tragedy, the antistrophe answering to the strophe , Victorin. p. 2051 P.—

II A rhetorical figure , when several parts of a period end with the same word = conversio, q. v.; Mart. Cap. 5, p. 175; Jul. Rufin. 35, p. 211.

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