Julius Caesar and Winston Churchill and Their Love of the Hypozeuxis

You are probably familiar with the hypozeuxis but just don’t know it. Don’t worry — it is not a terminal or incurable medical condition. A hypozeuxis (pronounced “hi PUH zook sis”) is a rhetorical term for a series of brief parallel clauses where each clause has its own subject and predicate. The word is derived from the Greek word hypozeugnynai that means “to subjugate or to put under the yoke.” Perhaps the most famous hypozeuxis is Julius Caesar’s proclamation to the Roman Senate, reporting his victory at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Zela_(47_BC)" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Battle of Zela</a> (47 BC): “I came; I saw; I conquered.” If you studied Latin, you will recall that early lesson: “veni, vidi, vici.” In Ecclesiastical Latin, that phrase is pronounced “vee-nee, vee-dee, vee-kee”; however, in Classical Late Latin, the “v” is pronounced as a “w”, so Caesar would have pronounced it “wee-nee, wee-dee, wee-kee.” <a href="https://alex-65670.medium.com/julius-caesar-and-winston-churchill-and-their-love-of-the-hypozeuxis-97e656d6b026">Read More</a>