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Anadiplosis

SOME GRAMMATICAL AND RHETORICAL FIGURES

Anadiplōsis (ἀναδίπλωσις doubling) is the rhetorical repetition of one or several words. Cp. “The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece, where burning Sappho loved and sung:” Byron.

Θῆβαι δέ, Θῆβαι πόλις ἀστυγείτων, μεθ᾽ ἡμέρᾱν μίαν ἐκ μέσης τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἀνήρπασται Thebes, Thebes, a neighbouring city, in the course of one day has been extirpated from the midst of Greece Aes. 3.133.