forms of diction that differ correspond to one another by some plea- sant allusion, either in the letters or the syllables : for instance, — Rom. i. 29, 31, rropve/ci, rrovrip'iop — (jj£6rovg <pQ6vov, (povov, — uffui isrovg, ourvvds-
rovg But as far as I know, Parechesis is not made mention of
in the Gnomon.
PATHOS is, when an orator or writer betrays or manifests a more prominent emotion and excited feeling of the mind, n dQog is also applied to the A ffection itself, which is a more vehement feel- ing either of any pleasure or of a pain ; and its parts are four : two arising out of pleasure, love and joy ; two also out of pain, hatred and sorrow. [Ernesti In. Rh. P. I. Sect. i. ch. 8, p. 48.] — Mark vii. 34, u By the verb sm w%?.v a profound affection of the mind is indicated.” See Gnom. — 2 Tim. i. 16, 18, “ An Anaphora full of pathos, duy sXsog — duty avru> 6 K vpiog sbpeTv sXeoj, depicts the joyous love of Paul towards Onesipliorus.” Comp, the Pref. of the Gnom. § xv. and the Title Ethos.
PERIPHRASIS, CIRCUITIO, are subservient, the one to copiousness, the other to suavity of ornament. The former is that which rather expresses a thing by circumlocution, than sets it forth by its own proper term, inasmuch as aiming at expanding the several words. The latter especially serves to designate the attri- bute of a thing : hence it calls a thing, not by its own proper word, but by a number of words ; and this, for the sake of either increas- ing or diminishing, or at least for the sake of hiding any offence which might have existed in the strict (proper) word ; or for more special reasons : e.g. — Matt. xxvi. 29, ix rovrov rov yivvr^arog rr^g a/4-rsXou. A Periphrasis for wine. See Gnom. on the passage. — Matt, xxvii. 62, ry ds sKcrvpiov. Periphrasis for the Sabbath. See Gnom. — Luke ii. 11, h 6Xu Aav/d. Periphrasis for Bethlehem. See Gnom. — 1 Thess. iv. 5, ra sdvv) ra fAri eldora rov Qeov : ver. 12, rrpog rovg e£co : ver. 13, oi Xotrroi oi /xri iyo\>ng kXrriba. A Periphrasis for the Gentiles. — Heb. i. 14, di a roiig fAeXXovrccg xXripovo/JisTv curripiav. A sweet Periphrasis for the elect. — Comp, the Title Euphemism.
PLEONASM is usually said to be employed, where the language is so abundant in respect to one or two words (e.g., A Noun , Pro- noun, Verb , Adverb , etc.), that even without those words the sense would be complete : e.g . — the Substantive is redundant, when the notion of it lies hid in the Adjective, — Rom. xii. 11, ry <f--ovdy w bxvripoi. The repetition is not inelegant, as Bauer very well ob- serves, in whose work you mav see several examples of Pleonasm. [Philol. Th. Pauli, ch. 10, p. 202, etc.]
It is also Pleonasm, when anything is expressed in a number of words and phrases, which, in the ordinary usage of speech, signify much the same thing ; for instance, — Luke xviii. 34, xai uvroi ovdev