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Symploce

SOME GRAMMATICAL AND RHETORICAL FIGURES

Symploce (συμπλοκή interweaving) is the repetition, in one or more successive clauses, of the first and last words of the preceding clause.

ἐπὶ σαυτὸν καλεῖς, ἐπὶ τοὺς νόμους καλεῖς, ἐπὶ τὴν δημοκρατίᾱν καλεῖς it is against yourself that you are summoning him, it is against the laws that you are summoning him, it is against the democratic constitution that you are summoning him Aes. 3.202.