κτησαμένους . . . χρησαμένους: ‘designed assonance’ (παρονομασία) is common in Isocr.; cp. § 46 φθονοῦσι . . . φρονοῦσι, and Paneg. 45 ῥώμης . . . γνώμης. It is sometimes found in the Greek Tragedians, e.g. ἢ χρέος ἢ θεός, and in Latin, e.g. Varro, R. R. iii. 2. 13 “utrum propter oues an propter aues.” παρονομασία was a favourite figure of the Sophist Gorgias of Leontini, and was sometimes called ‘figura Gorgiana’.
