Milton Paradise Lost xi. 491.
Or (still nearer to the ‘me, me, adsum,’ of Virgil):—
Me, though just right, and the fixed laws of Heaven,
Did first create your leader—next, free choice,
With what besides in council or in fight
Hath been achieved of merit—yet this loss,
Thus far at least recovered, hath much more
Established in a safe, unenvied throne,
Yielded with full consent.
Milton Paradise Lost ii. 18-24.
[25] Here τούτους is emphasized by καί as well as by its position well in front of the verb which governs it, while μισθοῦ depends for its emphasis on its position alone. ‘But even these hidden piles did divers (entering the water) saw off—for pay.’ Compare the analysis which Quintilian (ix. 4. 29) gives of Cicero’s “ut tibi necesse esset in conspectu populi Romani vomere postridie.”
[26] For the rhetorical and metrical effect Sandys (ad loc.) compares Milton Paradise Lost vi. 912, “Firm they might have stood, | Yet fell.”
[27] In this sentence the orator would probably pause slightly before γενναίως, and thus (1) emphasize it; (2) separate it from διδῷ. Other means (illustrated by various examples in this Introduction) of throwing a word into relief are: the interposition of a number of unemphatic words, the use of particles such as μέν and δέ, the placing of emphatic words in contrasted pairs near together or remote from one another.
[28] The order here (1) avoids the juxtaposition of too many accusative-terminations; (2) provides a conclusion which satisfies ear and mind alike.
[29] The position of τἄμ’ here may be compared with that of ἐμούς in Eurip. Med. 1045 ἄξω παῖδας ἐκ γαίας ἐμούς (‘for they are mine’). In English, too, both the end and the beginning may be emphatic: e.g. “silver and gold have I none.”
[30] Quoted by Dionysius (C.V. c. 3), though without any special reference to the point of emphasis.