Zeugma. From the hellenic zeugnyna...
Zeugma. From the hellenic zeugnynai, to join together; from a pair of animals linked at labor; yok oxen The grecians of course, for whom beginnings signified better than endings, alpha & omega, for whom x was just another letter: xiphoid, xerophagy, xenophobia, xoanon. Civilization, perforce, is abecedarian. When Xenophon's hoplites charged the Persians at Cunaxa he denied the agency of local the supreme goodnesss mistaking vox populi for vox angelica, voice of a suffering populace entirely fre of lustful yoke, uplifted in exquisite agony.
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