Abstract
In Vedic the poetic phonetic focusing on a name both directly and obliquely in an anagram has a poetic syntactic analogue: constituents may either adjoin one another or be separated by other elements of the sentence (hyperbaton). Both phenomena are manifestations of an opposition of overt vs. covert constituency. A particular Vedic instantiation of the latter is the distraction of clause-initial sa, with either third- or second-person reference, from the name or antecedent to which it refers and from its verbal predicate. These figures are Common Indo-Iranian. The Greek choral lyric poet Pindar gives evidence for both phonetic anagram and the same syntactic hyperbaton of the determiner-article o, the cognate of sd, which in context suggests common stylistic inheritance.
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