when such omission creates a blemish, it is called an ellipse.The Arcadians to the gates began to rush;
Aen. xi. 142. A false explanation of the historic infinitive as involving the omission of some such word as coeperunt.
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This form of trope is
not only a rhetorical ornament, but is frequently
employed in everyday speech. Some also apply the
term synecdoche when something is assumed which
has not actually been expressed, since one word is
then discovered from other words, as in the sentence,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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