Homoeoteleuton; or, Like Endings
Homoeoteleuton; or, Like Endings
The Repetition of the same Letters or Syllables at the end of Successive Words
H-m-o-tel-eu-ton. From (homoios), like, and (teleutee), an ending, i.e., words with like endings.
This is the opposite Figure to Homopropheron; and is used when successive words end with the same or similar letters or syllables.
These two figures are for the most part involved in others which affect the whole of the connected words; and therefore we shall meet with other examples as we proceed.
Mar 12:30.-This is the first commandment. In the Greek this sentence consists of three words, each ending with the same syllable: (hautee prtee entolee); and thus our attention is called to this weighty saying.
1Pe 1:3-4.-Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away.
Here, the Homoteleuton emphasizes the wondrous character of this inheritance:-
, , (aphtharton, amianton, amaranton), uncorruptible, undefiled, unfading. It is difficult accurately to reproduce the sound of this in English; except in marking it by the voice in reading aloud.
We might say, incorruptible, indefilable, indestructible, but this would be at the expense of exact accuracy in translating.
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