Institutio Oratoria

Quintilian

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

In this figure we may repeat the same connecting particle a number of times, as in the following instance:

v7-9 p.477
  1. His house and home and arms
  2. And Amyclean hound and Cretan quiver;
Georg. iii. 344.
or they may be different,

as in the case of arma virumque followed by multum ille et terris and multa quoque. [*](Aen. i. sqq.)