HYPALLAGE, amongst grammarians, a species of hyperbaton, consisting in a mutual permutation of one case for another. Thus Virgil says, Dare classibus austros, for dare classes austros; and again, Nec dum illis labra admovi, for nec dum illa labris admovi.
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