But it is not uncommon even in the orators. For example: “Yet this man lives. Lives? Why he even came into the senate house.”1And ye,
Pierian Muses, shall enhance their worth
For Gallus; Gallus, he for whom each hour
My love burns stronger.Cat. I. i. 2.
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The first word
of one clause is also frequently the same as the last
of the preceding, a figure common in poetry.
1 §30.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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