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Oxymoron

SOME GRAMMATICAL AND RHETORICAL FIGURES

Oxymōron (ὀξύμωρον pointedly or cleverly foolish) is the juxtaposition of words apparently contradictory of each other.

νόμος ἄνομος a law that is no law A. Ag. 1142, ἄχαρις χάρις a graceless grace A. Pr. 545, πίστις ἀπιστοτάτη most faithless faith And. 1.67, αὐτοὶ φεύγοντας φεύγουσι they themselves are flying from those who fly T. 7.70.