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I. Republican Period [German version] [I 1] P. Relative of Cicero's second wife Publilia A close relative (brother?) of Cicero's second wife Publilia; for this reason, he is frequently mentioned in Cicero's letters to T. Pomponius [I 5] Atticus. Bartels, Jens (Bonn) [German version] [I 2] P., Volero People's tribune in 472 and 471 BC People's tribune in 472 and 471 BC (MRR 1, 29 f.). P. is said to have introduced a bill in 472 to have the election of the tribunes of the plebs take place not in the comitia curiata, which were dominated by patricians and their clients, but in the comitia tributa (Co…

[German version] Poems that depict an object (lit.: 'Jests that reveal their maker's skill'). Viewed semiotically, they link the graphic and iconic with the linguistic and symbolic [4.140; 3]. The simultaneous occurrence of these affects the process of reception, which alternates between reading the words and looking at the image (full perception of technopaegnia can only be visual). A distinction can be made between: (a) outline poems, in which, based on polymetric verses, the outline shape of an object is reflected ( technopaegnia in the narrower sense; the term is original…