The mysterie of rhetorique unveil'd wherein above 130 the tropes and figures are severally derived from the Greek into English : together with lively definitions and variety of Latin, English, scriptural, examples, pertinent to each of them apart. Conducing very much to the right understanding of the sense of the letter of the scripture, (the want whereof occasions many dangerous errors this day). Eminently delightful and profitable for young scholars, and others of all sorts, enabling them to discern and imitate the elegancy in any author they read, &c. / by John Smith.

EPIMONE, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Commoratio, item perso∣verantia, a tarrying long upon one matter; derived from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, [epimeno] maneo, (i. e.) ex∣pecto ob rem aliquam, to stay or wait for some∣thing.

Epimone is a figure whereby the speaker dwels upon, and persists in a former conclusion, or the same cause much after one form of speech, but repeated in other words more plainly: By o∣thers it is said to be when the speaker knowing whereon the greatest weight of his cause or matter doth depend, makes often recourse thither, and repeats it many times by varia∣tion.

English Examples.

And shall so eminent a vertue be expelled, thrust out, banished, and cast away from the City?

What didst thou covet? what didst thou wish? what didst thou desire?

Scriptural Examples.

Eccles. 1.3. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he hath under the Sun?

What profit] to wit, towards the attaining of happinesse; otherwise in all labours there is some profit towards the helping of our earthly estates, as Prov. 14.23.

This is an elegant Epimone or dwelling upon the former conclusion, of the vanity of all things delivered in the former verse, and here repeated in other words more plainly.

Gen. 18.24, &c. Here you have a good exam∣ample in Abrahams suit to God for the Sodo∣mites, in these words; If there be fifty righteous within the city, wilt thou destroy, and not spa••e the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, &c. And thus he perseverantly continues his suit to the sixth request.

John 21.15, &c. Thus Christ speaks to Si∣mon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas lovest thou me more then these? feed my sheep; which say∣ing he persists in and repeats three times one pre∣sently after another.

Matth. 12, 31, 32. All manner of sin and blas∣phemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blas∣phemy against the holy Spirit shall not be for∣given unto men: And whosoever speaketh a word against the son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

The like examples you may find in Mar. 7.21, 22, 23. Col. 2.13, 14, 15. 1 Cor, 7.36, 37.