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
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..."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..."
