hendiadys

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GENS MEA PAELIGNI REGIOQVE DOMESTICA SVLMO.= This line is a type of hendiadys, the first half of the line being redefined by the second.

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  1. noun A figure of speech in which two words connected by a conjunction are used to express a single notion that would normally be expressed by an adjective and a substantive, such as grace and favor instead of gracious favor.

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  • The MS. authority is decidedly in favour of this, the more difficult reading; and the hendiadys is not more violent than those in Georg. —  The Aeneid of Virgil
  • At EP I ii 77 he solves the difficulty through hendiadys: 'quid Sauromatae faciant, quid Iazyges acres 11. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
  • GENS MEA PAELIGNI REGIOQVE DOMESTICA SVLMO.= This line is a type of hendiadys, the first half of the line being redefined by the second. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
  • 461 4] The was probably a kind of gentleman usher, but we have no correlative either to the custom or the word 5] Hermann rightly regards this as a hendiadys 6 for is Markland's, and, doubtless, the correct, reading is merely a correction of the Aldine edition 7] But read with the Cambridge editor, = "in relation to my former dispatches 8 should probably be erased before with the Cambridge editor. —  The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
  • 4 IUVENTUTE ET VIRIBUS: commonly explained as a hendiadys, i.e. as put for iuventutis viribus_; but Cic. —  Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes
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  1. Late Latin, from Greek hen dia duoin, one by means of two : hen, neuter of heis, one; see sem-1 in Indo-European roots + dia, through + duoin, genitive of duo, two; see dwo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. New Latin, also hendiadis; from Greek ε#527ν δια\ δυοῖν, one by two: ἑν, neuter of ειᾔ̄ς, one; διά, preposition, by, through (see dia-); δυοῖν, genitive dual of δύο = English two.
 

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