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PANEGYRIC , strictly a formal public speech delivered in high praise of a See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person or thing, and generally high studied or undiscriminating eulogy. It is derived from 7raeflyvpiKes (a speech) " See also:

fit for a See also:

general See also:

ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

assembly " (7ravtityvpts, panegyris). In See also:

Athens such speeches were delivered at See also:

NATIONAL

national festivals or See also:

GAMES, CLASSICAL

games, with the See also:

OBJECT

object of rousing the citizens to emulate the glorious deeds gf their ancestors. The most famous are the Olympiacus of See also:

GORGIAS (c. 483–375 B.C.)

Gorgias, the Olympiacus of See also:

LYSIAS

Lysias, and the Panegyricus and Panathenaicus (neither of them, however, actually delivered) of Isocrates. Funeral orations, such as the famous speech put into the mouth of See also:

PERICLES (49o-429 B.C.)

Pericles by See also:

THUCYDIDES (OovavMns)

Thucydides, also partook of the nature of panegyrics. The See also:

Romans confined the panegyric to the living, and reserved the funeral oration exclusively for the dead. The most celebrated example of a Latin panegyric (panegyricus) is that delivered by the younger See also:

Pliny (A.D. zoo) in the See also:

SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

senate on the occasion of his See also:

ASSUMPTION, FEAST OF

assumption of the consulship, containing a somewhat fulsome eulogy of See also:

TRAJAN [MARCUS ULPIUS TRAJANUS] (A. D. 53-117)

Trajan. Towards the end of the 3rd and during the 4th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, as a result of the orientalizing of the Imperial See also:

court by See also:

Diocletian, it became customary to celebrate as a See also:

MATTER

matter of course the superhuman virtues and achievements of the reigning See also:

EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor. Twelve speeches of the See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind (Pliny's included), eight of them by famous Gallic rhetoricians (See also:

Claudius See also:

MAMERTINUS, CLAUDIUS (4th century A.D.)

Mamertinus, See also:

EUMENIUS (c. A.D. 260-311)

Eumenius, See also:

NAZARIUS (4th century A.D.)

Nazarius, Drepanius Pacatus) and three of See also:

ANONYMOUS

anonymous author-See also:

SHIP

ship, have been collected under the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Panegyrici veteres See also:

LATINI, BRUNETTO (c. 1210-C. 1294)

latini (ed. E. Bahrens, 1874). Speaking generally, they are characterized by a See also:

STILTED

stilted, affected See also:

style and a See also:

TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)

tone of See also:

GROSS

gross adulation.

There are extant similar orations by See also:

AUSONIUS, DECIMUS MAGNUS (c. 310-395)

Ausonius, six or seven strings, one played by a See also:

MOOR

Moor; both have the tail-piece in the See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of a See also:

CRESCENT (Lat. crescens, growing)

crescent. 6 See See also:

HAMMER, FRIEDRICH JULIUS (1810-1862)

Hammer von Purgstall on the " Seven Seas," in Jahrbiicher der Literatur, See also:

XXXVI

xxxvi. 290 (See also:

Vienna, 1826). 3 Syntagma musicum (See also:

WOLFENBUTTEL

Wolfenbuttel, 1618), pl. xvii. and ch. 28, 63; reprint in Publik. d. Ges. f. Musikforschung (See also:

Berlin, 1884), Jahrgang XII. See Dr F. J. See also:

FURNIVALL, FREDERICK JAMES (1825-1910)

Furnivall's edition of See also:

CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

Captain See also:

Cox or See also:

Robert See also:

Lane-See also:

ham's See also:

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter, Ballad Society (See also:

LONDON

London, 1871), p. 67. 3 See Gabinetto armonico, ch.

49, pl. 97 (See also:

Rome, 1722). See also:

SYMMACHUS

Symmachus and See also:

ENNODIUS, MAGNUS FELIX (A.D. 474–521)

Ennodius, and panegyrics in See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse by Claudian, See also:

MEROBAUDES, FLAVIUS (5th century A.D.)

Merobaudes, See also:

PRISCIAN [PRISCIANUS CAESARIENSIS]

Priscian, See also:

CORIPPUS, FLAVIUS CRESCONIUS

Corippus and others. See C. G. See also:

HEYNE, CHRISTIAN GOTTLOB (1729–1812)

Heyne, " Censura xii. panegyricorum veterum," in his Opuscula academica (1812), vi. 8o-118; H. Rihl, De xii panegyricis latinis (progr. Greifswald, 1868) ; R. Pichin, See also:

Les Derniers ecrivains profanes (See also:

Paris, 1906).

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