SUBNEXIO  補加法

METALINGUISTIC COMMENT in which one appends a reflection to a finished piece of discourse.

Afterthought. Afterthought appended to the main thought as a further reflection on it.

Hypernym
  • METALINGUISTIC COMMENTRHETORICAL TROPE which consists in remarks not mainly concerned with the world but about language itself or about one's present or forthcoming message and its place in the world.
    • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
REF: Lausberg 861ff

Greek/Latin: Ubiquitous, and commonly discussed. Quintilian 9.3.96 quotes Virgil, Georg. 1.84 as a complex case of this where the afterthought is much longer than the main thought itself.

Ancient Chinese: Absent as an addition purporting to be spontaneous. Otherwise rare. Subordinate thoughts apparently tend to precede the main thought.

Rhetorical device locations: 1
  • 論語 知和而和， 不以禮節之 亦不可行也

    Recognising this as a qualifying afterthought is crucial to the interpretation of this tricky passage. It is not necessarily correct, but it is highly relevant as an interpretive possibility.