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And this is what Homer has expressed by using the figure Asyndeton.
ON THE SUBLIMELONGINUS
Therefore the figure asyndeton, whereby conjunctions are omitted, is highly commended by writers of rhetoric.
ESSAYS AND MISCELLANIESPLUTARCH
But the asyndeton resulting from the suppression of these words was felt to be intolerable.
THE CAUSES OF THE CORRUPTION OF THE TRADITIONAL TEXT OF THE HOLY GOSPELSJOHN BURGON
But the asyndeton (so characteristic of the fourth Gospel) proving uncongenial to certain of old time, D inserted και.
THE CAUSES OF THE CORRUPTION OF THE TRADITIONAL TEXT OF THE HOLY GOSPELSJOHN BURGON
Of this sort is Asyndeton when the conjunctions uniting sentences are removed.
ESSAYS AND MISCELLANIESPLUTARCH
The asyndeton in this distich is odd, given the preceding series of connectives.
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