apostrophen
Dictionary entries
- Entry →apostrophe, apostrophes:
Feminine · Noun
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Field:
- Literature
rhetorical figure when speaker turns away to address others; apostrophy;
acc. sg.
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...XXVI. Coniunxit autem parenthesin et apostrophen Vergilius illo loco: "haud procul inde citae Mettum in diversa quadrigae distulerant..." - M
Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...usque tandem abutere"? LXIX. Ac ne quis apostrophen miretur, idem Cicero pro Scauro ambitus reo, quae causa..."