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Persuadent Rauracis et Tulingis et Latrobrigis finitimis ut cum eis profiscantur
polysyndeton - et - et (they persuade the Rauraci and the Tulingis and the Latrobrgi, their neighbors, to set out with them
Lucio Pisone, Aulo Gabinio consulibus
asyndeton - lack of "et" (with Lucius Pisone, Aulus Gabinius as consuls)
obsides daturos quaeque imperasset facturos sese polliciti sunt
ellipsis (leaving out of essential words) - leaving out "esse" with daturos/factuors, which are future active infinitives
fidem et ius iurandum (good faith and an oath)
hendiadys - use of two nouns where noun + genitive or adj might be expected such as "a pledge of good faith bound by oath"
non aetate confectis, non mulieribus, non infantibus pepercerunt (two)
anaphora - repetition of "non"; asyndeton - "they spared not the aged, not the women, not the children"
fama nobiles potentesque bello (in reputation notable, and powerful in war)
chiasmus - ABBA
neque tam imperitum esse rerum ut non sciret (and he was not so unversed in affairs as not to know)
litotes - affirmation of an idea through the negation of its opposite - double negatives
Nam et navium figura et remorum motu et inusitatio genere ormentorum permoti barbari
polysyndeton - et - et - et
minimeque ad eos mercatores saepe commeant (and very seldom do merchants often visit them)
litotes - affirmation through negation - minime "very seldom" negates saepe "often"
Perfacile factu esse illis probat conata perficere, propterea quod ipse...
alliteration - p and f - he demonstrates to them that it is very easy to do....
oppida sua omnia, numero ad duodecim, vicos ad quadrigentos, reliqua privata aedificia incentunt
asyndeton (lack of et) - they burn all their towns, to a number to 12, villages to forty, remaining private buildings
necessario adversa nocte in altum provectae continentem petierunt (adversa nocte)
personification - it is necessary to sail with the night opposed
equos sustinere et brevi moderari ac flectere et per temonem percurrere et in iugo....
polysyndeton - et - ac - et - et
monere, orare Titurium pro hospitio ut....
asyndeton - lack of "et" with the two infinitives: they warn, they beg Titurius on behalf of their friendship to....
Omnia excogitantur, quare nec sine periculo maneatur,....
litotes - affirmation through negative/double negative - and not without - they were thinking out all things, and why without danger they were not staying
hostes.....senserunt....exspectabant......ostenderunt
hyperbaton - where words that go together are placed far apart - here "hostes" is the subj but the verbs are far away; DBG 5.32
