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If the demands
of artistic structure permit, it is far best to end the
sentence with a verb: for it is in verbs that the
real strength of language resides. But if it results
in harshness of sound, this principle must give way
before the demands of rhythm, as is frequently the
case in the best authors of Rome and Greece. Of
course, in every case where a verb does not end the
sentence, we shall have an hyperbaton,1 but hyperbaton
is an admitted trope or figure, and therefore is to be
regarded as an adornment.
1 See VIII. vi. 62 sqq.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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