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ἀποσι^ώπ-ησις , εως, ἡ,
A.becoming silent, Plu.Alex.52, Herod.Med.in Rh.Mus.58.71.
2. a rhetorical figure, when for emphasis, modesty, etc., the sentence is abruptly broken off, Quint. Inst.9.2.54, Demetr.Eloc.103, 264, Plu.2.1009e, Hermog.Id.2.7.
3. breaking off of friendship, Ptol.Tetr.192 (pl.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Plutarch, Alexander, 52
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