“In the midmost seaAgain,
Rocks are there by Italians altars called.
”
[14]
A greater source of obscurity is, however, to be
found in the construction and combination of words,
and the ways in which this may occur are still more
numerous. Therefore, a sentence should never be
so long that it is impossible to follow its drift, nor
should its conclusion be unduly postponed by transposition or an excessive use of hyperbaton.1 Still
worse is the result when the order of the words is
confused as in the line2
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