Institutio Oratoria

The verb may even be placed in the middle so as to serve both what precedes and what follows. The same figure may join different sexes, as for example when we speak of a male and female child under the comprehensive term of

sons

; or it may interchange singular and plural.

But these devices are so common that they can scarcely lay claim to involve the art essential to figures. On the other hand it is quite obviously figure, when two different constructions are combined as in the following case:

1. Sociis tunc arma capessant
2. Edico et dira bellum cum gene gerendumn.

Aen. iii. 234; participio = gerundive ( gerendum ).

(I bid my comrades straight to seize their arms And war be waged against a savage race.) For although the portion of the sentence following bellum ends with a participle, both clauses of the sentence are correctly governed by edico. Another form of connexion, which does not necessarily involve omission, is called συνοικείωσις, because it connects two different things, for example:

1. The miser lacks
2. That which he has no less than what he has not.

Syrus 486 (Ribbeck).