acervatio
 ak-er-va'-ti-o L. "A heaping up, accumulation"

Latin term Quintilian employs for both asyndeton ("acervatio dissoluta"—a loose heap) and polysyndeton ("acervatio iuncta"—a conjoined heap).
 
  Sources: Quintilian 9.3.53-54


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