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Whole sentences again end
with the phrase with which they began. Take an
example. “He came from Asia. What a strange
thing. A tribune of the people came from Asia.”1
Nay, the first word of this same period is actually repeated at its close, thus making its third appearance:
for to the words just quoted the orator adds, “Still
for all that he came.” Sometimes a whole clause is
repeated, although the order of the words is altered,
as, for example, Quid Cleomenes facere potuit non
enin possum quemquam insimulare falso, quid, inquam,
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magno opere potuit Cleomenes facere?2
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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