Paromoion

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A paromoion (from ancient Greek παρόμοιος "similar, (almost) the same"), also paromoiosis , is a rhetorical sound figure . Similar to alliteration , words begin with the same initial letter; Beyond alliteration, however, they come from different semantic areas. The paromoion was used in both ancient Greek and Latin antiquity.

Example: Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστί - "War is the father of all things." ( Heraclitus )