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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] The original panegyrics were speeches delivered at public events in ancient Athens.
Panegyric 12, meanwhile, contains a direct allusion to Caesar's Bellum civile. [25] Accentual and metrical clausulae were used by all the Gallic panegyrists. All of the panegyrists, save Eumenius, used both forms at a rate of about 75 percent or better (Eumenius used the former 67.8 percent of the time, and the latter 72.4 percent). [26]
Πανήγυρις is also transliterated as panegyry, [5] and in turn, some sources define panegyry to be a panegyric. [6] [7] A panegyric is a formal public speech ...
Laudatio florentinae urbis (Latin for "Praise of the City of Florence") is a panegyric delivered by Leonardo Bruni (c. 1403–4). The panegyric is modeled after Aelius Aristides' Panathenaic Oration, [1] particularly with references to Florence's values and external threats. [2] It was first delivered immediately after Florence's victory over ...
The poem is a panegyric or encomium of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who reigned from 285 to 247 BC. [1] Hauler, in his Life of Theocritus, dates the poem about 259 BC, but it may have been many years earlier. [2] The references to historical personages and events, coupled with a comparison with Idyll XVI, point to 273 as the date of the poem. [1]
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The panegyric text is followed by two panegyrics from three quarters of a century earlier, addressed to the Emperor Maximian (the first delivered in 289 and the second in 290 or 291). The text of the Panegyrici that has survived also attributes these to Claudius Mamertinus; it is unclear whether there was an older orator of the same name or the ...
His major works are the epic poem Iohannis, a panegyric called "Panegyric of Anastasius", and a poem in praise of the Emperor Justin II, In laudem Iustini minoris. [1] Corippus was probably the last important Latin author of Late Antiquity .