syllepsis

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

syllepsis, is, f., = σύλληψις,

a grammatical figure , by which one word is referred to another in the sentence to which it does not grammatically belong , a syllepsis (e. g. hic arma, Hic currus fuit, Verg. A. 1, 16; Ter. And. 3), Charis. p. 250 P.; Diom. p. 440 ib.

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