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The like effect may be produced in the same sentence by repeating the same words in different forms, as in Persius: Is then to know in thee Nothing unless another know thou knowest? i. 26. The translation is Watson's. and in Cicero, Origin unknown. where he says, For it was impossible for the judges as well to be condemned by their own judgement.
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Whole sentences again end with the phrase with which they began. Take an example. He came from Asia. What a strange thing. A tribune of the people came from Asia. From the lost in Q. Metellum. Nay, the first word of this same period is actually repeated at its close, thus making its third appearance: for to the words just quoted the orator adds, Still for all that he came. Sometimes a whole clause is repeated, although the order of the words is altered, as, for example, Quid Cleomenes facere potuit non enin possum quemquam insimulare falso, quid, inquam, magno opere potuit Cleomenes facere? Ecl. x. 72.
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The first word of one clause is also frequently the same as the last of the preceding, a figure common in poetry. And ye, Pierian Muses, shall enhance their worth For Gallus; Gallus, he for whom each hour My love burns stronger. Cat. I. i. 2. But it is not uncommon even in the orators. For example: Yet this man lives. Lives? Why he even came into the senate house. §30.
