Cataploce; or, Sudden Exclamation
Cataploce; or, Sudden Exclamation
Parenthetic Addition by Way of Exclamation
Cat-a-plok-ee (), from (kata), down, and (plokee), a twining or plaiting. The figure is so called because the short sentence so interposed is intertwined with another. This name is given to a parenthesis when it takes the form of a sudden exclamation.
Eze 16:23-24.-And it came to pass after all thy wickedness
(woe, woe unto thee! saith Adonai-Jehovah)
That thou hast also built unto thee, etc.
Rom 9:2-3.-This is a kind of Cataploce as well as Epitrechon (see page 428), and Euche.