Literary Device Examples Vergil and Caesar

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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

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