Hyperboreo septem subiecta trioni1a licence wholly inadmissible in oratory. Still there is good reason for calling such a transposition a trope, since the meaning is not complete until the two words have been put together.
（“Under the Hyperborean Wain”),
[66]
The poets even go so far as to secure
this effect by the division of words, as in the line:
1 Georg. iii. 381.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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