yes, i know that was dumb. but what i really wanted to tell you is that i just came across a nice example of hyperbaton in catullus 65:
namque mei nuper Lethaeo in gurgit fratris
pallidulum manans alluit unda pedem…‘For recently has the flowing water washed the pale (dim.) foot of my brother in the Lethaean stream…’
i would also like there to be a transference of the diminutive from the foot itself to the adjective. i don’t know why calling his foot a ‘little foot’ would bring about pathos, but for some reason it seems to me that it would.