Institutio Oratoria

Quintilian

Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria, Volume 1-4. Butler, Harold Edgeworth, translator. Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press, William Heinemann Ltd., 1920-1922.

There is a still more striking example in the passage describing the death of Polydorus [*](Aen. iii. 55. ) :

  1. All faith he brake and Polydorus slew
  2. Seizing his gold by force. Curst greed of gold,
  3. To what wilt thou not drive the hearts of men?
'Those terminologists who delight in subtle distinctions call the last figure μετάβασις (transition), and hold that it may be employed in yet another way, as in Dido's
  1. What do I say? Where am I?
Aen. iv. 595.

Virgil has combined apostrollphe and parenthesis in the well-known passage: [*](Aen. viii. 642. )

v7-9 p.461
  1. Next Mettus the swift cars asunder tore,
  2. (Better, false Alban, hadst thou kept thy troth!)
  3. And Tullus dragged the traitors' mangled limbs. . .
These figures and the like, which consist in change,