and the rest as much as he has said about the sceptre, then joining what follows with the beginning (I. i. 340):—
The time shall come when all the sons of Greece
Shall mourn Achilles' loss.
He uses also Palillogia—that is the repetition of some part of a sentence, or several parts are repeated. This figure is called Reduplication, such as (I. xx. 371):—
Encounter him well! Though his hands were hands of fire,
Of fire, his hands, his strength as burnished steel.
Sometimes certain insertions are made and they are repeated, as in (O. i. 22):—
Howbeit Poseidon had now departed for the distant Ethiopians,
the Ethiopians that are sundered in twain, the uttermost
of men.
This is a figure revealing the feeling of the speaker and at the same time affecting the hearer.
Of the same kind is Relation; when at the commencement of several members of a sentence the same part is repeated. An example of this from the poet is (I. ii. 671):—
Nireus three well-trimmed ships from Syme brought.
Nireus to Charops whom Aglaia bore.
Nireus the goodliest man of all the Greeks.
This figure is likewise adapted to excite the emotions and give sweetness to the expression.