Carmen de figuris vel schematibus

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Carmen de figuris vel schematibus is a rhetoric work written in the 4th-5th century AD. It is a poem composed of 186 lines, discussing almost 60 figures of speeches.^[1] Its author is anonymous, but he surely was inspired by Alexander Numenius' and Publius Rutilius Lupus' treatises.^[2]

References

↑ Q. Skinner, Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 151.
↑ Dirk M. Schenkeveld. "Rosa Maria D'Angelo (ed.), Carmen de figuris vel schematibus. Hildesheim-Zürich-New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2001. Pp. 178. ISBN 3-487-11345-7". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Retrieved 29 December 2016.

External links

Incerti auctoris de figuris vel schematibus versus heroici , F. G. Schneidewin (ed.), Gottingae, sumptibus G. Kuebleri, 1841.
Rhetores Latini minores, Karl Halm (ed.), Lipsiae in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1863, pp. 63-70.

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[1] Q. Skinner, Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 151.

[2] Dirk M. Schenkeveld. "Rosa Maria D'Angelo (ed.), Carmen de figuris vel schematibus. Hildesheim-Zürich-New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2001. Pp. 178. ISBN 3-487-11345-7". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Retrieved 29 December 2016.

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