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HYPALLAGE

Volume 11 · 40 words · 1823 Edition

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