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Epitome
(1,344 words)
(ἐπιτομή;
epitomḗ, Lat.
epitoma and
epitome) [German version] A. Definition
Epitomḗ (from ἐπιτέμνειν;
epitómnein, ‘abbreviate’, ‘cut to size’, Aristot. Soph. el. 174b 29; Theophr. Hist. pl. 6,6,6): as an ideal type, it is a form of reduced written text [10] somewhere between an excerpt and a paraphrase, generally of prose works (exception
i.a. the lost Virgil epitomes [2]), and themselves written in prose (exception: Ausonius'
Caesares). Extreme brevity is the declared aim of an epitome: decorative features of the original, such as speeches, or digressions, …
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Brill’s New Pauly
Fredegar Chronicle
(178 words)
[German version] A chronicle-like ( Chronicles) collection of texts in 4 bks. written in the mid 7th cent. in France,
Ab orbe condito (until 642), to which people wrongly attributed a Fredegar as the author in the 16th cent. The question of its authorship, like that of the number of people involved in the compilation (one editor: [1]), is unresolved. The Frankish orientation remains decisive. The entire compilation had little effect (38 MSS), and the only strong influence was the history of the Trojan origin of the…
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Brill’s New Pauly
Argumentum
(146 words)
[German version] 1. Indication of the contents of a drama or poem (Greek ὑπόθεσις;
hypóthesis), also in the sense of ‘great draft’ (Verg. Aen. 7,791; cf. Quint. Inst. 5,10,9 f.). 2. Within the classification of narrative texts according to truth content, the argumentum stands between
fabula and
historia: as a tale that is fabricated but correlates to the reality of life (Cic. Inv. 1,27; Rhet. Her. 1,12 f.). In late antiquity, this sharp division becomes blurred [1]. 3. From the tradition of Greek philosophy and rhetoric: ‘reason’, ‘proofs’, together with
signa and
exempla understood …
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Brill’s New Pauly