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t. e. XII Panegyrici Latini or Twelve Latin Panegyrics is the conventional title of a collection of twelve ancient Roman and late antique prose panegyric orations written in Latin. The authors of most of the speeches in the collection are anonymous, but appear to have been Gallic in origin.
Sep 1, 2023 · Here, for the first time, is an annotated English translation of the eleven later panegyrics (291-389 C.E.) of the XII Panegyrici Latini , with the original Latin text prepared by R. A. B. Mynors. Each panegyric has a thorough introduction, and detailed commentary on historical events, style, figures of speech, and rhetorical strategies accompanies the translations. The very difficult Latin of ...
Jan 1, 1994 · Here, for the first time, is an annotated English translation of the eleven later panegyrics (291-389 C.E.) of the XII Panegyrici Latini, with the original Latin text prepared by R. A. B. Mynors. Each panegyric has a thorough introduction, and detailed commentary on historical events, style, figures of speech, and rhetorical strategies ...
- C. E. V. Nixon, Barbara Saylor Rodgers
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Oct 13, 1999 · Of the twelve panegyrics, that of Pliny is the only one attested independently, in a sixth-century palimpsest (R.A.B. Mynors, XII Panegyrici Latini (Oxford, 1964) p. ix and L.D. Reynolds (ed.), Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics (Oxford, 1983) 289). 5.
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Here, for the first time, is an annotated English translation ofthe eleven later panegyrics (291-389 C.E.) of the XIIPanegyrici Latini, with the original Latin ...
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The XII Panegyrici Latini, an ancient collection of these speeches, includes the gratiarum actio delivered by Pliny the Younger when he was nominated consul by the emperor Trajan in ad 100. Late Roman writers of the 3rd to the 5th century indiscriminately praised and flattered the emperors in panegyrics that were sometimes written in verse.
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The collection of twelve Latin Panegyrics (XII Panegyrici Latini) was put together in its present form by Latinius Pacatus Drepanius, who delivered a panegyric of Theodosius before the Roman Senate in the presence of the emperor in 389 (Pan. Lat. 2[12]). In what has aptly been styled ‘a clever stroke of ostensible modesty’ (Syme 1968: 113 ...
