conduplicatio
 con-du-pli-ca'-ti-o L. “doubling”

The repetition of a word or words. A general term for repetition sometimes carrying the more specific meaning of repetition of words in adjacent phrases or clauses. Sometimes used to name either ploce or epizeuxis.
 
Examples
  War it is that you are bringing into Attica, Aeschines, an Amphictyonic war.
—Demosthenes, De corona 143
Related Figures
 

 
  Sources: Ad Herennium 4.28.38; Suarez 59r-v.


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