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The following also may be
[p. 459]
regarded as belonging to the same genus. The first
is called interpositio or interclusio by us, and parenthesis
or paremptosis by the Greeks, and consists in the
interruption of the continuous flow of our language
by the insertion of some remark. The following
is an example: ego cum te (mecum enim saepissime
loquilur) patriae reddidissem.1
1 pro Mil. xxxiv. 94. “When I had restored you—for he often enters into conversation with me—to your country.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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