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SYMPHYTUM

Volume 20 · 68 words · 1823 Edition

Comfrey, a genus of plants belonging to the class pentandra; and in the natural system ranging under the 41st order, asperifolia. See Botany Index.

SYMPOCE, συμποσιακής, in Rhetoric, a figure, where the same word is repeated several times in the beginning and end of a sentence, including the anaphora and epitrophe: thus, Quis legem tulit? Rullas. Quis majorem populi partem suffragis privavit? Rullas. Quis comitis praefuit? Idem Rullas.