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Find example of tmesis (separation of prep.— Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I
The two chief blots on his versification are his barbarous examples of tmesis,--_saxo cere comminuit brum: Massili portant invenes ad litora tanas (= cerebrum, Massilitanas), and his quaint apocope, cael, gau, do (_caelum, gaudium, domum_), probably reflected from the Homeric do, kri_, in which Lucilius imitates him, e.g. nol. (for nolueris_).— The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
The use of tmesis, asyndeton, anacoluthon, aposiopesis, hyperbaton, hyperbole, litotes_, in Latin oratory and poetry 61.— The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
[36] Cujus rei libet; it is more common to say cujuslibet rei Sometimes the relative pronouns compounded with cunque and libet are separated by the insertion of some other word or words between them, which in grammatical language is called a tmesis--as quod enim cunque judicium subierat, absolvebatur; quem sors dierum cunque tibi dederit, lucre appone, 'whatever day chance may give thee, consider it as a gain 37] Capiundae_.— C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
Perhaps we might read [Greek: epi de gas pedioploktypou ôsin chrimp. boa], by tmesis, for [Greek: epichrimptetai].— Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes
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