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NEC CVM FORTVNA MENS QVOQVE VERSA MEA EST.= For Ovid's use of syllepsis, see at vi 16 spem nostram terras deseruitque simul (p 234).— The Last Poems of Ovid
For a Creed is or ought to be a 'syllepsis' of those primary fundamental truths that are, as it were, the starting-post, from which the Christian must commence his progression.— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4.
Man and Nature, but Man himself is a syllepsis, a compendium of Nature — the— Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.
= For Ovid's use of syllepsis, see at vi 16 _spem nostram terras deseruitque simul_ (p 234).— The Last Poems of Ovid
[480] Who besides Webster has called syllepsis "_substitution_," I do not know.— The Grammar of English Grammars
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