Priamel
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A priamel is a literary and rhetorical device found most often in ancient Greek poetry and consisting of a series of listed alternatives that serve as foils to the true subject of the poem, which is revealed in a climax. For example, Fragment Number 16 by the Greek poet Sappho begins with a priamel:
- Some say a cavalry corps,
- some infantry, some, again,
- will maintain that the swift oars
- of our fleet are the finest
- sight on dark earth; but I say
- that whatever one loves, is.
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