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When, however, the transposition is confined to two words only, it is called anastrophe, that is, a reversal of order. This occurs in everyday speech in mecum and secure, while in orators and historians we meet with it in the phrase quibus de rebus. It is the transposition of a word to some distance from its original place, in order to secure an ornamental effect, that is strictly called hyperbaton: the following passage will provide an example: animadverti, indices, omnem accusatoris orationenm in duas divisam esse partes. Cic. pro Cluent. i. 1. ( I noted, gentlemen, that the speech of the accuser was divided into two parts. ) In this case the strictly correct order would be in duas partes divisam esse, but this would have been harsh and ugly.
6.66
The poets even go so far as to secure this effect by the division of words, as in the line: Hyperboreo septem subiecta trioni Georg. iii. 381. ( Under the Hyperborean Wain ), a licence wholly inadmissible in oratory. Still there is good reason for calling such a transposition a trope, since the meaning is not complete until the two words have been put together.
