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HYPALLAGE

Volume 11 · 40 words · 1815 Edition

HYPALLAGE, among grammarians, a species of hyperbaton, consisting in a mutual permutation of one case for another. Thus Virgil says, Dare clasibus auctus, for dare clasibus auctius; and again, Nec dum illis labra adnuiti, for nec dum illa labris adnuiti.