- Homeoptoton
The homeoptoton (from the Greek "homoióptoton", «similar in the cases»), is a
figure of speech , characteristical of the flexive languages, consisting in ending the last words of single parts of the speech with the same cases: for instance, inLatin , two consecutive and correlated sentences ending both inaccusative ."Hominem laudem egentem virtutis, abundantem felicitates" ("Am I to praise a man abounding in good luck, but lacking in virtue?").
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