[6]
Again although periphrasis often
includes the actual word whose place it supplies, it
still uses a number of words in place of one. The
epithet as a rule involves an element of antonomasia1
and consequently becomes a trope on account of this
affinity. Hyperbaton is a change of order and for
this reason many exclude it from tropes. None the
less it transfers a word or part of a word from its
own place to another.
1 VIII. vi. 29 and 46.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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