asyndeton

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

ăsyndĕton, i, n., = ἀσύνδετον,

a rhetorical figure by which the connecting particle is omitted (in pure Lat., dissolutio), e. g. Veni, vidi, vici; cf. Diom. p. 440 P.— Adj. : ăsyndĕtus , a, um, in astronomy, of stars, standing without any connection with , or reference to , a constellation : Mercurius, Sid. Ep. 8, 11.

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