in Grammar, a figurative construction inverting the natural and proper order of words and sentences. The several species of the hyperbaton are, the analrophe, the hysteron-proteron, the hypallage, lynchylis, 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 Quadriregio vehitur curru, cui tempora circum Aurati bis sex radii fulgentia cingunt, Solis avii specimen: bigis it Turnus in albis, Bina manu lato crupans haftilla ferro; Hinc Pater Aeneas, Romane stirpis origo, Sidereo flagrans clypeo et caelisibus armis; Et juxta Ascanius, magna spes altera Romae: Procedunt castris.

HYPERBOLA.