Another difficulty for a reader lies in his use of brachylogy. |
Because of the close grammatical parallelism and the dependent relationship between the two or more units in brachylogy, one might expect such units to cohere into a single colon. |
A subject that is a part of an idiom may also be omitted by brachylogy. |
Socrates uses brachylogy to undermine every discourse, long or short, rather than to express truths for which macrology would be less suitable. |
The prevailing principle of the composition seems to have been the employment of the fewest words, thus rendering the work a constant brachylogy. |
It is interesting that it is in adverbial coordination that formal asymmetry obtains, where brachylogy is not a highly salient device elsewhere in Romance. |