(n) :
the first part of a play, in which the setting and characters are introduced; the antecedent in a conditionalsentence
"1922: It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe. -- James Joyce, Ulysses"
(n) :
the first part of a play, in which the setting and characters are introduced; the antecedent in a conditionalsentence
"1922: It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe. -- James Joyce, Ulysses"