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Paraleipsis

SOME GRAMMATICAL AND RHETORICAL FIGURES

Paraleipsis (παράλειψις passing over) is pretended omission for rhetorical effect.

τᾱ̀ς δ᾽ ἐπ᾽ Ἰλλυρίους καὶ Παίονας αὐτοῦ καὶ πρὸς Ἀρύββᾱν καὶ ὅποι τις ἂν εἴποι παραλείπω στρατείᾱς I omit his expeditions to Illyria and Paeonia and against Arybbas and many others that one might mention (lit. whithersoever one might speak of) D. 1.13.