elocutio

Somewhat satisfactorily, the problem of “postera crescam laude” was already knotty in the second or third century, when in his Commentum in Horatium, the North African grammarian and editor Pomponius Porphyrio tagged it with the explanatory remark: “Eleganter, quia semper sunt, quibus haec elocutio noua sit et laudetur.”

postera crescam laude II 2009

"Rhetoric is one great art comprised of five lesser arts: inventio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria, and pronunciatio."

Definitions of Rhetoric 2010

Here Baumgarten is importing the traditional rhetorical concepts of inventio, dispositio and elocutio into his system, and conceiving of the latter two, the harmony of the thoughts and the harmony of the expression with the thoughts, as the dimensions in which the potentials for pleasure within our distinctively sensible manner of representing and thinking are realized.

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

The proper performance of music, including improvisation, was analogous to elocutio of the rhetoricians.

"Life spans measured in years don’t take into account how fast we live them." Ann Althouse 2007

Major canons of rhetoric — inventio, dispositio, and elocutio — were adapted from Cicero and Quintilian and applied to the art of the poet and painter.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN GRAHAM 1968

As early as L.B. Alberti in his Della pittura (1436), inventio was used to indicate the painter's general material, his ideas and forms; dispositio, the large aspects of ar - rangement or composition; and elocutio, the actual portrayal.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN GRAHAM 1968

The third faculty, that of elocutio or style, provides the framework for a treat - ment of the three styles — the grand, the middle, and the simple — and their cognate defective styles, and of the figures of thought and of diction, described and exemplified in great detail.

RHETORIC AFTER PLATO BERNARD WEINBERG 1968

Cicero devotes the major part of the letter to elocutio or diction, and within that category, to the placing of words and the establishment of prose rhythms.

RHETORIC AFTER PLATO BERNARD WEINBERG 1968

How - ever, other words (such as oratio, elocutio) were more often used, and the concept of style naturally goes back to the earliest Greek writings on rhetoric.

STYLE IN LITERATURE R. A. SAYCE 1968

Though he was not strictly either an orator or a philosopher, his works include both speeches and philosophical treatises; but his chief distinction and his permanent interest are as a novelist both in the literal and in the accepted sense of the word -- a writer of prose romances in which he carried the _novella elocutio_ to the highest point it reached.

Latin Literature 1902