"Take a chair Cinna, and in all things heed
Strictly the law that I lay down for thee."
Let us suppress the isolation and silence of the conjunction, and there is no more color.
Augustus adds:
"Hold thy tongue captive, and if silence deep
To thy emotion do some violence"--
Suppress the silence and isolation of the conjunction and, and how poor is the expression!
In the fable of "The Wolf and the Dog:"
"Sire wolf would gladly have attacked and slain
him, but it would have been necessary to give battle, and it was now almost morning."
The entire significance lies in the silence which follows the conjunctions.
We speak of a sympathetic conjunction, and also of one denoting surprise or admiration; but this conjunction differs from the interjection, only in this respect: it rests upon the propositions and unites its terms. Like the interjection, it is of a synthetic and elliptic nature; it groups all the expressions it unites as interjectives. It is, then, from this point of view, exclamative.
In the fable of "The Wolf and the Lamb," the wolf says: