_aposiopesis_ or _reticentia_; that is, where (for the sake of effect) some emphatic words are left to be guessed at: as Virgil's _Quos ego_ ---- (Whom if I catch, I'll ----)]— The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
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