prolepsis
νύκτα οὖν ἡμέραν ποιούμενος → without delay, as soon as possible, as fast as possible, making the night day, making night into day, turning night into day
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
prŏlepsis: is, f., = πρόληψις, in rhetoric, a mentioning a thing by a name which it has not yet received,
I anticipation, prolepsis (pure Lat. occupatio), Diom. p. 438 and 439 P.; or an allusion to a thing as having happened before it has actually come to pass, an anachronism, Ascon. ad Cic. Verr. 1, 45 fin.; or a refuting of an objection by anticipation (written as Greek), Quint. 4, 1, 49; 9, 2, 16.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
prŏlēpsis, is, f. (πρόληψις), prolepse [nom de diff. fig. de gramm. et de rhét.] : Ps. Ascon. Verr. 2, 1, 117.
Latin > German (Georges)
prolēpsis, is, Akk. im, Abl. ī, f. (πρόληψις), die Vorausnahme, Vorauserwähnung, Prolepsis, als gramm. u. rhet. t. t., Diom. 443, 21. Ps. Ascon. ad Cic. II Verr. 1, 117. p. 192, 19 B.
