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ANACOLUTHON (Gr. for " not following ...

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 906 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANACOLUTHON (Gr. for " not following on ")  , a grammatical See also:term, given to a defectively constructed See also:sentence which does not run on as a continuous whole; this may occur either, in a See also:text, by some corruption, or, in the See also:case of a writer or See also:speaker, simply through his forgetting the way in which he started . In the case of a See also:man who is full of his subject, or who is carried along by the See also:passion of the moment, such inconsequents are very See also:apt to occur . Of See also:Niebuhr it is told that his oral lectures consisted almost entirely of anacoluthic constructions . To this See also:kind of See also:licence some See also:languages, as See also:Greek and See also:English, readily lend themselves; while the grammatical rigidity of others, as Latin and See also:French, admits of it but sparingly . In See also:Herodotus, See also:Thucydides, See also:Aeschylus, See also:Pindar and See also:Plato, abundant specimens are to be found; and the same is true of the writers of the Elizabethan See also:age in English . The following is an example:—" And he charged him to tell no man; but go show thyself," &c . (See also:Luke v . 14) .

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