epiplectic

adj

adj

Etymology From Ancient Greek ἐπιπληκτικός (epiplēktikós, “given to rebuking”), from ἐπίπληξις (epíplēxis, “rebuke”). See epiplexis.

Rhetoric Of or pertaining to epiplexis.

With Kessels' text there is no subordinate "who?" but only the epiplectic "why?"1979, Donald J. Mastronarde, Contact and Discontinuity: Some Conventions of Speech and Action on the Greek Tragic Stage, page 47:

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