| Figure Name | prozeugma |
| Source | Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm); Mosellanus ("prozeugma" "praeiunctio") a4r; Susenbrotus (1540) 26; Peacham (1577) K2v; Putt. (1589) 176 ("prozeugma," "the ringleader") ; JG Smith (1665) ("protozeugma") |
| Earliest Source | None |
| Synonyms | protozeugma, antezeugmenon, proepizeuxis, injunctum, praeiunctio, ringleader, ante-yoke |
| Etymology | None - No etymologies that I could find online; may require more digging! -Nike |
| Type | Scheme |
| Linguistic Domain |
Syntactic |
| Definition |
1. A series of clauses in which the verb employed in the first is ellided (and thus implied) in the others. (Silva Rhetoricae) 2. Prozeugma the first kind, is a figure of speech which putteth some word in the first clause, and omitteth it in the other following. (Peacham) 3. Protozeugma, A joyning together in the beginning; a figure when the common word is expressed in the beginning of the clause or sentence, and omitted after: see in Zeugma.; Zeugma hath three kinds: viz. (1) Protozeugma. which is when the Verb or Adjective is expressed in the beginning of the clause or sentence; and omitted after (JG Smith) |
| Example |
1. Her beauty pierced mine eye, her speech mine woeful heart, her presence all the powers of my discourse. (Puttenham qtd. in Silva Rhetoricae) 1. Vicit pudorem libido, timorem audacia, rationem amentia. (Cicero qtd. in Silva Rhetoricae |
| Kind Of | Omission Symmetry Series |
| Part Of | zeugma |
| Related Figures | syllepsis, ellipsis, parallelism, hypozeugma, epizeugma, mesozeugma, synzeugma, diazeugma, hypozeuxis, figures of omission, figures of division |
| Notes | |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Last Editor | Nike Abbott |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Editorial Notes | |
| Reviewed | No |