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, synclisis, tmesis, parenthesis, and the hyperbaton strictly so called.

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

Interes Reges; ingenti mole Latinus Quadrifugo vehitur curru, cui tempora circulo Aurati bis sex radii fulgentia cingunt, Sollis axi spectantem; hie est Turnus in albis, Rima manu late crispsam hastilla ferro; Hinc Pater Aeneas, Romane stirpis origo, Sidereo flagrans cylopo et celestibus armis; Et juxta Ascanius, magnum spes altera Roma: Precedunt castris.