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Hyperbaton
Etymology – definition via Wikipedia
Etymology
"Hyperbaton"
is a word borrowed from the Greek hyperbaton (ὑπέρβατον), meaning
"stepping over," which is derived from hyper
("over") and bainein ("to step"), with the -tos
verbal adjective suffix. The idea is that to understand the phrase, the reader
has to "step over" the words inserted in between.
Classical usag
The separation
of connected words for emphasis or effect is possible to a much greater degree
in highly inflected languages,[5] where sentence meaning does not
depend closely on word order. In Latin
and Ancient Greek, the effect of hyperbaton is
often to emphasize the first word. It has been called "perhaps the most
distinctively alien feature of Latin word order."[1] Donatus, in his work On tropes,
includes under hyperbaton five varieties: hysterologia, anastrophe (for which the term hyperbaton
is sometimes used loosely as a synonym), parenthesis,
tmesis, and synchysis.
Greek
"Greece has suffered such things
at the hands of only one person"
In the above
example, the word "(only) one", henos, occurs in its normal
place after the preposition "at the hands of" (hupo), but
"person" (anthrōpou) is unnaturally delayed, giving emphasis
to "only one."
"[I entreat] you by your knees"
Here the word
"you" (se) divides the preposition "by" from its
object "knees."
"What power does it
have?"[6]
New Testament Greek[edit]
Hyperbaton is
also common in New Testament Greek, for example:[7]
"This man is performing many
signs" (not merely a few)
"because of him being near
Jerusalem" (not far)
"See, I have written to you with
big letters in my own hand" (not small ones)
"I (am) a wretched man"
(not a fortunate one)
In all these
examples and others in the New Testament, the first word of the hyperbaton is
an adjective or adverb which is emphasised by being separated from the
following noun. The separating word can be a verb, noun, or pronoun.[8]
Latin
Prose]
In Latin
hyperbaton is frequently found, both in prose and verse. The following examples
come from prose writers. Often there is an implied contrast between the first
word of the hyperbaton and its opposite:[9]
"You gave the letter to my
slave (i.e. not your own)?"
"I received two
letters (duas epistulas) from you yesterday" (not just one).
"This time the flood (hae
aquae) lasted (permanserunt) several days" (unlike the earlier
one).
"So (passed) that
day (ille dies)" (as opposed to the following one).
Sometimes the
hyperbaton merely emphasises the adjective:
"The people saw this, therefore,
as an enormous victory."[10]
"for (enim) he was carrying
a large sum of money (magnam pecuniam) with him (secum)".
"with (cum) a great deal of
roaring and shouting"
The first word
of the hyperbaton can also be an adverb, as in the following example:[11]
"a life (vita) equally
pleasant (aeque iucunda).
In all the
above examples, the first word of the hyperbaton can be said to be emphasised.
The following is different, since there is no emphasis on sum "I
am". Instead, the effect of emphasis is achieved by reversing the expected
order ipse sum mensus to sum ipse mensus:
"for I measured (sum
mensus) it myself"
It is also
possible for the noun to come first ("postmodifier hyperbaton"), as
in the following:[12]
"The seventh day was
approaching"
"Antonius led out two legions."
The following
even have a double hyperbaton:
"When Socrates himself
didn't leave a single line of writing."
"he took possession of an
enormous amount of booty".
A hyperbaton
can also be used to demonstrate a kind of picture shown in the text:
"With the
dispute being held unto either side" (showing an elegance to the dispute
being on either side of the accusative prepositional phrase)
Another kind of
hyperbaton is "genitive hyperbaton", in which one of the words is in
the genitive case:[13]
"He called a meeting of the
soldiers."
In the
following, a genitive hyperbaton and an adjectival hyperbaton are interleaved:
"Great fear (magnus timor)
overcame the minds of all of them (omnium animis)."
Another kind of
hyperbaton (called "conjunct hyperbaton" by Devine and Stephens)[14] is found when a phrase
consisting of two words joined by et ("and") is separated by
another word:
"Aspendus, an old town, and
a noble one".
"Between Faesulae and Arretium".
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