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Title page of the Panegyric of Leonardo Loredan (1503), created in honour of Leonardo Loredan, 75th Doge of Venice, now in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. A panegyric (US: / ˌ p æ n ɪ ˈ dʒ ɪ r ɪ k / or UK: / ˌ p æ n ɪ ˈ dʒ aɪ r ɪ k /) is a formal public speech or written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or thing. [1]
panegyric, eulogistic oration or laudatory discourse that originally was a speech delivered at an ancient Greek general assembly (panegyris), such as the Olympic and Panathenaic festivals. Speakers frequently took advantage of these occasions, when Greeks of various cities were gathered together, to advocate Hellenic unity. With this end in ...
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Panegyric. A poem of effusive praise. Its origins are Greek, and it is closely related to the eulogy and the ode. See Ben Jonson’s “ To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare” or Anne Bradstreet’s “In Honor of That High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth.”. Browse all terms. Poems & Poets.
The earliest known use of the word panegyric is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for panegyric is from 1602, in the writing of William Watson, Roman Catholic priest and conspirator. panegyric is a borrowing from French. Etymons: French panégyrique.
emperor was a noble endeavour but risked the charge of superbia: in a panegyric, however, it could be done without seeming arrogant (Ep. 3.18.2). The canonical virtues appeared in the handbooks of rhetoric where the abstract ideal was created, but the individual orator was free to choose what the occasion required. In the formulaic
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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44 Fishwick (n.42) 466. GOD AND MAN IN THE CLASSICAL LATIN PANEGYRIC 8 1. by employing similar phrasing of the felicitas of the Roman state, which is he implies, by the Emperor's love for it, even in advance of the gods' fulfilment people's prayers.45 The Emperor is in effect now a divine being granting. others.
