in grammar, a figurative construction inverting the natural and proper order of words and sentences. The several species of the hyperbaton are, the anastrophe, the hysteron-proteron, the hypallage, synchysis, tmesis, parenthesis, and the hyperbaton strictly so called. See Anastrophe, &c.

Hyperbaton, strictly so called, is a long retention of the verb which completes the sentence, as in the following example from Virgil:

Interea Reges: ingenti mole Latinus Quadrifugo vehitur curru, cui tempora circum Aurati bis sex radii fulgentia cingunt; Solis avii specimen: bigis it Turnus in albis, Bina manu lato cripsans haflilia ferro: Hinc Pater Æneas, Romane stirpis origo, Sidereo flagrans cylope et celestibus armis: Et justa Alcanius, magna fides altera Rome: Procedunt castris.