Citations:aprosdoketon


 * 1) * 2001, H. S. Versnel, "The Poetics of the Magical Charm," in Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World (edited by P. Mirecki and M. Meyer) :
 * His famous dictum Ceterum censeo Carthaginem delendam esse is an instance of pure rhetoric, deriving its power from its reiteration as a peroration attached to any speech he gave. Now, precisely this fact, the aprosdoketon effect, lends it a certain circumstantial magical quality as well. Being pronounced after every speech on whatever topic, it more often than not was completely out of (logical) order, which is at least one of the characteristics of certain components of the magical charm.