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Antistrophe

in rhetoric

SOME GRAMMATICAL AND RHETORICAL FIGURES

Antistrophe (ἀντιστροφή turning about) is the repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.

ὅστις δ᾽ ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ λόγῳ τὴν ψῆφον αἰτεῖ ὅρκον αἰτεῖ, νόμον αἰτεῖ, δημοκρατίᾱν αἰτεῖ whoever in his first speech asks for your vote as a favour, asks the surrender of your oath, asks the surrender of the law, asks the surrender of the democratic constitution Aes. 3.198.