hypallage

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This kind of extreme hypallage, with the true modified noun not expressed, does not however seem to be Ovid's practice, although found in the Silver poets: Statius Theb IX 425 'deceptaque fulmina' means 'the thunderbolts thrown by Jupiter at the request of Semele, who had been deceived by Juno'.

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  1. In grammar and rhetoric, a figure which consists in inversion of syntactical relation between two words, each assuming the construction which in accordance with ordinary usage would have been assigned to the Other. Thus, in Virgil (Æneid, iii. 61), “dare classibus austros” (to give the winds to the fleets) is substituted for the usual construction “dare classes austris” (to give the fleets to the winds); the dative and accusative— that is, the indirect and direct objects—having been interchanged. Hypallage is a bold departure from the customary mode of expression, and is almost entirely confined to poetry.
  2. Hypallage of the adjective the transfer of the attribute from that one of two interdependent substantives with which it would usually agree to the other, especially from a substantive in the genitive to that governing it. See enallage.

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  • This kind of extreme hypallage, with the true modified noun not expressed, does not however seem to be Ovid's practice, although found in the Silver poets: Statius Theb IX 425 'deceptaque fulmina' means 'the thunderbolts thrown by Jupiter at the request of Semele, who had been deceived by Juno'. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
  • Here there is a slight hypallage: the offence lies in the fact that the conqueror dares to credit his false gods with his triumph, and not, as the words would literally signify, in that with which he credits them 263 Note that adjectives at the end of the line are strongly emphatic 266 Foi means: 1. —  Esther
  • The rhetoricians call this "hypallage," because one word as it were is substituted for another. —  The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
  • _Sterili_ is transferred by hypallage from _litus_; _siccum_ serves no purpose beyond providing a balancing epithet. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
  • SIDERA = = _inter sidera conuexi caeli_; the hypallage adds further to the elevation of the passage. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
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  1. Late Latin, from Gr.ὑπαλλαγή, an interchange, exchange, a figure of speech by which the parts of a proposition seem to bo interchanged (metonymy, epidiorthosis, enallage, hypallage), from ὑπαλλάσσ, σ1ειν, exchange, from ὑπό, under, + άλλα/σσ, σ1ειν, change, later ἀλλαγή, change, exchange : see allagite. Cf. enallage.
 

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