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.
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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.
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Smith, John, Gent.
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London :: Printed by E. Cotes for George Eversden ...,
1665.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A59234.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.
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EPANODOS,〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Regressio, regres∣sion, or turning back: derived from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 [epi] again, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, [anodos] ascensus, an ascending or climbing up; which is derived from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, [ano] sursum upwards, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, [hodos] via, a way.
Epanodos is a figure whereby the like sound is repeated in the beginning and ending of di∣vers sentences, (an Anadiplosis intervening) or,
When the words of a sentence are turned upside down, or as I may say, repeated back∣ward: the same sound being repeated in the beginning and middle, in the middle and end.
Prima velut mediis, mediis ita Epanodos imaConsona dat repetens: Crudelis tu quo{que} mater;Crudelis mater magis, an puer improbus ille?Improbus ille puer, crudelis tu quo{que} mater.
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Thus in English,
Whether the worst, the child accurst,or else the cruel mother?The mother worst, the child accurst,as bad the one as th' other.Nec sine sole suo lux, nec sine luce sua Sol.Eloquentia non ex Artificio, sed Artificium exEloquentia natum.Hermogenes inter pueros Senex, inter Senes puer.
English Examples of Epanodos.
Men venture lives to conquer; she conquers lives without venturing, &c.
Parthenia desired above all things to have Ar∣galus: Argalus feared nothing but to miss Par∣thenia.
I never saw a fray more unequally made then that, which was between us this day, I with bear∣ing the blows, and he with giving them, till we were both weary.
Account it not a purse for treasure, but as a treasure it self worthy to be pursed up, &c.
Unlawful desires are punished after the ef∣fect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punis••ed in the desire it self.
Shew'd such fury in his force, such stay in his fury.
Scriptural Examples.
Isa. 5.20. Woe unto them, who call good evil, and evill good; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness, &c.
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2 Cor. 2.15, 16. For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish; to the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other, the savour of life unto life.
Joh. 8.47. He that is of God, heareth Gods Word; ye therefore hear it not, because ye are not of God.
Ezek. 35.6. I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee; except thou hate blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
Cumter eadem re∣currimus, verba in∣verso ordi∣ne relegen∣tes. When we return back again by the same words, rea∣ding again the words in a clean contrary order.