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Asyndeton

AGREEMENT OF ATTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVES

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 X. 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.

§§2165–2167ASYNDETON

SOME 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! S. 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 D. 18.200. Cp. 946, 1599.