periodic

periodic: as epith. of style: (oratio) vincta atque contexta, Quint. 9, 4, 20 (opp. to oratio soluta, the free, running style of conversation or letters, λέξις εὶρομένη); genus eloquendi (scribendi) conversum atque circumscriptum, Aquila Roman. in Kenrick's Herod. p. xl.: cf. Cic. Or. 12, 38.