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“ [38] The principle governing the use of embellishments and decorations of style is the same: words may be repeated and reiterated or reproduced with some slight change. Sentences may repeatedly commence or end with [p. 371] the same word or may begin and end with the same phrase. The same word may be reiterated1 either at the beginning or at the conclusion, or may be repeated, but in a different sense.”

1 adiungitur apparently refers to the same figure described in Herodian (Rh. Gr. iii. 99) as ἐπίζευξις for which he gives as an example Θῆβαι δὲ Θῆβαι, πόλις κ. τ. λ., from Aeschin. Ctes. 133.

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