Tuesday 1 November 2016

vicit pudorem libido timorem audacia rationem amentia






Lust conquered shame; audacity, fear; madness, reason




Vicit pudorem libido timorem audacia rationem amentia. (Cicero, Pro Cluentio, VI.15)

In rhetoric, zeugma (i/ˈzuːɡmə/ or /ˈzjuːɡmə/; from the Ancient Greek ζεῦγμα, zeûgma, lit. "a yoking together"[1]) and syllepsis (/sɪˈlɛpsɪs/; from the Ancient Greek σύλληψις, sullēpsis, lit. "a taking together"[2]) are figures of speech in which one single phrase or word joins different parts of a sentence.[3]