The conjunction of figures works most powerfully on us when two or three, as it were a confederacy, are mingled with one another, and contribute force, persuasion, and beauty in common, as in the speech against Meidias, where asyndeta interlace with anaphorae and word-painting. ‘Many things would the striker do which the sufferer might not even be able to report to another, by his attitude, by his look, by his voice.’ §1
Then, lest the discourse stand still in the same place — for stillness is rest, but passion is in disorder, since it is a movement and stir of soul — at once he passes to other asyndeta and anaphorae: ‘by his attitude, by his look, by his voice; when as if a wanton, when as if an enemy, when with his fists, when as on a slave.’ Through these the orator achieves nothing else than what the striker does: he beats the judges' minds with the rolling sequence of his blows. §2
Then again, like a series of squalls, he makes a fresh charge: ‘when with his fists, when on the cheek,’ he says. ‘These things stir, these unsettle a man unused to insult; no one reporting them could put forward the dread of them.’ He thus preserves the very nature of anaphorae and asyndeta by continual variation; so for him order is disorder, and again disorder takes on a kind of order. §3