4):--

Thou wouldst not know to whom Tydides may join himself,--

instead of "no one can know."

And again (O. ix. 210):--

And a marvellous sweet smell went up from the mixing bowl:
then truly it was no pleasure to refrain.

58. He uses participles in the place of verbs, as in these words (I.
viii. 306):--

Weighed down in a garden by this fruit,--

instead of "it is weighed," and (O. xiii. 113):--

Thither they as having knowledge of that place drive
their ships,--

instead of "before they knew."

And articles he often changes, setting demonstrative instead of
relatives (I. xvi. 150):--

Whom Podarge, swift of foot, to Zephyr bore,--and the contrary
(I. xvii. 460):--

And breastplate: for his own his faithful friend hath lost.

So he was wont to change prepositions (I. i. 424):--

Yesterday he went through the banquet,--instead of "to the banquet."

And (I. i. 10):--

And he stirred up an evil plague through the army.

Likewise he joins with a preposition a noun improperly, as in the verse
(I. x. 101):--

Lest perchance they wish to decide the contest in the night,--

where the preposition is followed by, the accusative, not the
genitive. And as to other prepositions, some he changes, some he omits
(I. ii. 696):--

Of whom he lies lamenting,--instead of "concerning whom."

And (O. xxiii. 91):--

Expecting whether he would bespeak him,--instead of
"speak to him."

And other prepositions he in the same fashion changes or leaves out. And
adverbs he changes, using indifferently motion towards, rest in, and
motion from a place (I. xx. 151):--

His grandchildren were setting down from elsewhere,--instead of
"elsewhere" (I. vii. 219):--

And Ajax came from near,--instead of "near."

Finally he has changes of conjunctions, as (O. i. 433):--

He never lay with her and he shunned the wrath of his lady,--
instead of "for he shunned," etc. And these are the figures of
speech which not only all poets but the writers of prose have
employed.

But significance is given by him in many ways. One of which is
Proanaphonesis, which is used when any one in the midst of a narration
uses an order proper to other things, as in the following line (O. xxi,
98):--

He was to be the first that should taste the arrow,--
and Epiphonesis (I. xvii. 32):--

After the event may e'en a fo