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referred to everywhere in the Gnomon, scarcely if at all differ from one another. Let us run through examples.
Litotes is referred to in the Gnomon on John vi. 37, rou Ipyo- fjj&vov npoc [ms ob [M7i ix(3dXoj s£u, i.e. I will receive and defend in all icays : Acts xxvi. 19, obz sysvojxrjv ansiQrig rp obpavioj onraffia, u I did not become disobedient, i.e. I ivas forthwith altogether obedient . — Lorn. x. 2 ; 1 John iii. 17 ; Philem. ver. 11. — Msioxsig is referred to, — Luke xvii. 9, ob 8ozu : 1 Cor. ix. 17, szuv, willing, i.e. gratuitously . — Tanstvuaig is referred to, — Acts x. 47, (aj?r/ r'o vdup KuXbdai hbvarat rig — Water, for baptism; ch. xxii. 18, ob napads^ovrai sou rr,v fiaprvptav ns pi sfjjQv : Kom. y. 5, ob zarawybni, maketh not ashamed , i.e. produces the highest glorying. — Extenuatio is referred to, — Heb. ix. 13, r'o alpa rabpuv za'i rpayuv , “ the bloood of bulls and goats, i.e. sacrifices.
LOCUTIO CONCISA.— See the Title Concisa Locutio.
MEinsis. — See the Title Litotes ; and compare Bauer’s Pliilol. Thucyd. Pauli, ch. xi. p. 262.
METALEPSIS is a double or manifold Trope in the same word or phrase ; whether of such a kind as that the same Trope is multi- plied, or that two different Tropes concur : Ernesti In. Rh. § 332, p. 163 : e.g . — Acts xx. 25, obzsn b-^piG&s r'o npoffunov [lov b/MsTg ndvrsg , h dig 8ir,X6o'j zrjpbcffuv rr\v fiaSiXsiav rob ®sob. There is a double METO- NYMY of the Consequent for the Antecedent : 1) Such things are about to befall me, that I am hardly, if at all, likely to return ; 2) if even I were ever so likely to return, yet ye yourselves, after so long an interval of time, will almost all be dead or removed else- where. Instead of these two Antecedents there is put the Conse- sequent, ye shall not see my face. Comp, the Gnom. — 1 Pet. v. 3 ; 1 John y. 7, on rpsTg siaiv — sv rp yp : ( — Rev. xiii. 18, apiQ[Mog yap, z.r.x.) See Gnom.
METAPHOR A, or TRANSLATIO, is the change of the strict signification into an alien one on account of a similarity which exists between the things. Therefore in every Metaphor there is a similarity , wdiich is reduced into and completely included in one word, upon the foundation of which it as it were depends. — Er- nesti In.Rh. p. 154, etc. — Examples: Matt. xvi. 18, 19, sni rabrp
rp nsrpcp o)zoho[My\6(j) [lov rr\v szzXyjffiav, zai nbXai "Adou ob xariGydxSovmv abryjg • xaJ duiGu ffoi rag xXsTg rSjg (SaGiXsiag rob v obpavuv. A Metaphor from architecture. — 2 Cor. v. 1, olbafxsv yap — o'txia rob ffxfivovg zaraXvdp , — “ This Metaphor from his own trade might the more affect Paul, who was a tent-maker .” The Gnom. on the passage. — 1 Tim. vi. 19, anoQriffavptfyvrag savroTg Qs/msX/ov xaXov , — u All accumulated Meta- phor, which causes neither tsedium nor obscurity, but tends to im-
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