this context can only apply to mental activity, the inclusion of “in my mind” is unnecessary. This periphrasis is found elsewhere in Cicero and in other classical Latin writers. The remaining italicized expressions are of the type cited by some rhetoricians as periphrases; however, they are also examples of synecdoche. 6. Antonomasia (ἀντονομασία, pronominatio): Antonomasia is the substitution of an appellative, usually a nickname or descriptive epithet, for a proper name. ὁ δὲ παραδιδοὺς αὐτὸν