§9.3.32etiam in contrapositis vel comparativis solet respondere primorum verborum alterna repetitio, quod modo huius esse loci potius dixi: vigilas tu de node, ut tuis consultatoribus respondeas; ille, ut eo quo intendit mature cum exercitu perveniat.
Also in contrasted or comparative clauses, an alternate repetition of the first words is accustomed to correspond, which I just said belonged rather to this place: "You wake by night to answer your clients; he, that he may arrive early with his army at the place he intends.
te gallorum, illum buccinarum cantus exsuscitat.
The singing of the cocks wakes you, the sound of the trumpets him.
tu actionem instituis; ille aciem instruit.
You bring an action; he draws up a battle line.
tu caves, ne consultores tui, ille, ne urbes aut castra capiantur. §9.3.33sed hac gratia non fuit contentus orator, vertit in contrarium eandem figuram: ille tenet et scit, ut hostium copiae, tu, ut aquae pluviae arceantur.
You take care lest your clients, he lest cities or camps be taken." But the orator was not content with this grace, and turned the same figure into its contrary: "He holds and knows how the forces of the enemies, you how the rainwater may be kept off.
ille exercitatus in propagandis finibus, tu in regendis. §9.3.34possunt media quoque respondere vel primis, ut
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te nemus Angitiae, vitrea te Fucinus unda; "
vel ultimis ut haec navis onusta praeda Siciliensi, cum et ipsa esset ex praeda. nec quisquam dubitabit. idem fieri posse iteratis utrinque mediis.
He is trained in extending boundaries, you in regulating them." Middle words can also correspond to the first, as: "You the grove of Angitia, you the Fucinus with its glassy wave (lament)"; or to the last, as: "As this ship laden with Sicilian booty, when it was itself from the booty." Nor will anyone doubt that the same thing can happen with the middle words repeated on both sides.
respondent primis et ultima: multi et graves dolores inventi parentibus et propinquis multi. §9.3.35est et illud repetendi genus, quod simul proposita iterat et dividit:
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Iphitus et Pelias mecum, quorum Iphitus aevo
iam gravior, Pelias et vulnere tardus Ulixi. "
Ἐπάνοδος dicitur Graece, nostri regressionem vocant.
The last words also correspond to the first: "Many and heavy griefs were brought upon parents, and upon relatives many." There is also that kind of repetition which repeats and divides what has been proposed at the same time: "Iphitus and Pelias with me, of whom Iphitus was already heavier with age, Pelias also slow from the wound of Ulixes." It is called Epanodos in Greek, and our people call it regression.
nec solum in eodem sensu, §9.3.36sed etiam in diverso eadem verba contra sumuntur: principum dignitas erat paene par, non par fortasse eorum qui sequebantur. interim variatur casibus haec et generibus retractatio: magnus est dicendi labor, magna res et cetera; et apud Rutilium longa περιόδῳ sed haec initia sententiarum sunt: pater hic tuus? patrem nunc appellas? patris tui filius es? §9.3.37fit casibus modo hoc schema, quod πολύπτωτον vocant.
And not only in the same sense, but also in a different one, the same words are taken contrariwise: "The dignity of the leaders was almost equal, but not equal perhaps was that of those who followed." Sometimes this repetition is varied by cases and genders: "Great is the labor of speaking, a great thing is it," and so forth; and in Rutilius, in a long period, but these are the beginnings of the sentences: "Is this your father? Do you call him father now? Are you the son of your father?" This figure occurs through cases, which they call polyptoton.
constat aliis etiam modis, ut pro Cluentio: quod autem tempus veneni dandi? illo die? illa frequentia? per quem porro datum? unde sumptum? quae porro interceptio poculi? §9.3.38cur non de integro autem datum? hanc rerum, coniunctam diversitatem Caecilius μεταβολήν vocat, qualis est pro Cluentio locus in Oppianicum: illum tabulas publicas Larini censorias corrupisse decuriones universi iudicaverunt, cum illo nemo orationem, nemo rem ullam contrahebat, nemo illum ex tam multis cognatis et adfinibus tutorem unquam liberis suis scripsit, et deinceps adhuc multa.
It is also constituted in other ways, as in "Pro Cluentio": "But what was the time of giving the poison? On that day? In that crowd? Through whom, furthermore, was it given? Whence was it taken? What, furthermore, was the interception of the cup?" "Why, furthermore, was it not given anew?" Caecilius calls this combined diversity of things metabole, such as is the passage against Oppianicus in "Pro Cluentio": "That he had corrupted the public censorial tables at Larinum, all the decurions judged; with him no one made speech, no one contracted any business; no one, out of so many relatives and connections, ever appointed him as tutor for his children," and many things still in succession.
§9.3.39ut haec in unum congeruntur, ita contra ilia dispersa sunt, quae a Cicerone dissipata dici puto:
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hic segetes, illic ueniunt felicius uuae,
arborei fetus alibi,
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et deinceps.
As these are gathered into one, so on the contrary those are dispersed, which I think are called dissipated by Cicero: "Here crops, there grapes grow more happily, elsewhere the fruits of trees," and so on.
§9.3.40ilia vero apud Ciceronem mira figurarum mixtura deprehenditur, in qua et primum verbum longo post intervallo redditum est ultimum et media primis et mediis ultima congruunt: vestrum iam hic factum reprehenditur, patres conscripti, non meum; ac pulcherrimum quidem factum, verum, ut dixi, non meum, sed vestrum. §9.3.41hanc frequentiorem repetitionem πλοκήν vocant, quae fit ex permixtis figuris, ut supra dixi, utque se habet epistola ad Brutum, ego cum in gratiam redierim cum Appio Claudio, et redierim per Cn. §9.3.42Pompeium, ego ergo cum redierim. sed in iisdem sententiis crebrioribus mutata declinationibus iteratione verborum: ut apud Persium,
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usque adeone
scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter?
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Sed apud Ciceronem, neque enim poterant iudicio et hi damnari, qui iudicabant.
But in Cicero indeed, a wonderful mixture of figures is detected, in which both the first word after a long interval is rendered last, and the middle words agree with the first, and the middle with the last: "Your deed now is blamed here, conscript fathers, not mine; and a most beautiful deed indeed, but, as I said, not mine, but yours." This more frequent repetition they call ploke, which is made from mixed figures, as I said above, and as the letter to Brutus has it: "When I had returned into favor with Appius Claudio, and had returned through Gnaeus [9.3.42] Pompeius, when I therefore had returned." But in the same sentences with more frequent repetition of words with changed inflections: as in Persius: "Is your knowing so much nothing, unless another knows that you know this?" But in Cicero: "For neither could these also be condemned by a trial, who were conducting the trial."