If one substantive has several attributive adjectives, these are sometimes added without a conjunction (by Asyndeton): κρέᾱ ἄρνεια, ἐρίφεια, χοίρεια flesh of lambs, kids, swine A. 4.5.31. This is commoner in poetry, especially when the adjectives are descriptive: ἔγχος βρῑθὺ μέγα στιβαρόν a spear heavy, huge, stout Π 141.
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Asyndeton
§1033AGREEMENT OF ATTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVES
§§2165–2167ASYNDETON
§3016SOME GRAMMATICAL AND RHETORICAL FIGURES
Asyndeton (ἀσύνδετον not bound together) is the absence of conjunctions in a series of coördinate words or phrases. See 2165 ff.
a. Here is sometimes placed the omission of the verb after μή (μὴ σύ γε, μὴ γάρ, etc.); as μὴ τριβᾱ̀ς ἔτι (ποιεῖσθε) no more delays! Ant. 577, τίς οὐχὶ κατέπτυσεν ἂν σοῦ; μὴ γὰρ (εἰπὲ) τῆς πόλεως γε, μηδ᾽ ἐμοῦ who would not have reviled you? Do not say the State, nor me 18.200. Cp. 946, 1599.