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1º_ It is a rhetorical figure of construction also called zeuma, ceugma or adjunction, where a verb or an adjective is omitted within terms in a sentence, because being mentioned in one is understood in the others. From Greek 950; 949; 965; 947; 956; 945; (Zeugma "union, yoke, bond"). 2º_ Zeugma is the name of a city in the province of Gaziantep (Turkey), named by the ancient Greeks since in that place there was a "bridge of barges" that linked both banks of the Euphrates River.

  

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