“Ceres by water spoiled,and Horace:
”
If, however, the process is reversed, the effect is harsh.Neptune admitted to the land
Protects the fleets from blasts of Aquilo.A. P. 63.
[23]
It is but a short step from synecdocheè to metonymy,
which consists in the substitution of one name for
another, and, as Cicero1 tells us, is called hypallage
by the rhetoricians. These devices are employed to
indicate an invention by substituting the name of
[p. 315]
the inventor, or a possession by substituting the
name of the possessor. Virgil, for example, writes:2
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.