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Rhetorica ad Herennium
AuthorCicero or Cornificius
CountryRoman Empire
LanguageLatin
SubjectRhetoric
Set inAncient Rome
Publication date
~ 90 BCE

The Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius) is the oldest surviving Latin book on rhetoric, dating from the late 80s BC.[1] It was formerly attributed to Cicero or Cornificius, but is in fact of unknown authorship, sometimes ascribed to an unnamed doctor.

  1. ^ "Rhetorica ad Herennium". Reference to Sulpicius' tribunate of 88, and Gaius Marius' final consulship (86).

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Rhetorica ad Herennium

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The Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius) is the oldest surviving Latin book on rhetoric, dating from the late 80s BC. It was formerly attributed...

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Method of loci

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ancient Roman and Greek rhetorical treatises (in the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero's De Oratore, and Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria). Many...

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Figure of speech

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known text listing them, though not explicitly as a system, is the Rhetorica ad Herennium, of unknown authorship, where they are called πλεονασμός (pleonasmos—addition)...

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Pathos

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persons concerned, and interest in the consequences. The 84 BC Rhetorica ad Herennium book of an unknown author theorizes that the conclusion is the most...

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Glossary of rhetorical terms

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repeating the last word in successive phrases, for example (from Rhetorica ad Herennium), "Since the time when from our state concord disappeared, liberty...

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Rhetoric to Alexander

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thought to have been written by Aristotle. Rhetoric (Aristotle) Rhetorica ad Herennium Chiron, P. (2010). "The Rhetoric to Alexander". In Worthington,...

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Zeugma and syllepsis

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the Rhetorica ad Herennium. Populus Romanus Numantiam delevit Kartaginem sustulit Corinthum disiecit Fregellas evertit. (Anon. Rhetorica ad Herennium. IV...

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Poena cullei

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distinct from that ritual performed at other times. For example, the Rhetorica ad Herennium, a treatise by an unknown author from about 90 BC details the execution...

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Gluttony

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live to eat" is commonly attributed to Socrates. A quotation from Rhetorica ad Herennium IV.28 : "Esse oportet ut vivas; non vivere ut edas" ("It is necessary...

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Art of memory

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art of memory which deal with the subject at length include the Rhetorica ad Herennium (Bk III), Cicero's De oratore (Bk II 350–360), and Quintilian's...

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Ethos

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employed by an orator whose purpose was to "inspire trust in his audience" (Rhetorica 1380). Ethos was therefore achieved through the orator's "good sense,...

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Dispositio

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faults in the introduction. For example, this excerpt from the Roman Rhetorica ad Herennium lists several faults: In the Introduction of a cause we must make...

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Elocution

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Course of Lectures on Elocution and John Walker's Elements of Elocution". Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric. 19 (1): 49–91. doi:10.1525/rh.2001...

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Decorum

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of this division of styles was set out in the pseudo-Ciceronian Rhetorica ad Herennium. Modeled on Virgil's three-part literary career (Bucolics, Georgics...

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Metonymy

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Latin scholars also had an influence on metonymy. The treatise Rhetorica ad Herennium states metonymy as, "the figure which draws from an object closely...

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De vulgari eloquentia

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from which he drew information were the Ars Poetica by Horace, the Rhetorica ad Herennium by an anonymous author, and De Inventione by Cicero. About the philosophical...

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Brevitas

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Brevitas is a rhetorical style Rhetorica ad Herennium calls "the expressing of an idea by the very minimum of essential words". By implying more than is...

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Latin school

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one of Cicero's works, the de inventione and pseudo-Ciceronian Rhetorica ad Herennium. There were five main parts: the salutatio (salutation), benevolentiae...

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Trivium

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Sophisticis Elenchis (c. 350 BC) Topics (c. 350 BC) De Inventione (84 BC) Rhetorica ad Herennium (80 BC) De Oratore (55 BC) A Dialogue Concerning Oratorical Partitions...

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Marcus Antonius Gnipho

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Latino Sermone ("On the Latin Language") in two books. The surviving Rhetorica ad Herennium has been ascribed to him, but this is not widely accepted; otherwise...

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Polemic

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Sophisticis Elenchis (c. 350 BC) Topics (c. 350 BC) De Inventione (84 BC) Rhetorica ad Herennium (80 BC) De Oratore (55 BC) A Dialogue Concerning Oratorical Partitions...

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On the Sublime

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publication, the work was initially attributed to Cassius Longinus (c. 213–273 AD). Since the correct translation includes the possibility of an author named...

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Kairos

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Sophisticis Elenchis (c. 350 BC) Topics (c. 350 BC) De Inventione (84 BC) Rhetorica ad Herennium (80 BC) De Oratore (55 BC) A Dialogue Concerning Oratorical Partitions...

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Rhetoric

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who both spoke in public and produced treatises on the subject. Rhetorica ad Herennium, formerly attributed to Cicero but now considered to be of unknown...

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Informal fallacy

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and division, the false dilemma, the fallacy of begging the question, the ad hominem fallacy and the appeal to ignorance. There is no general agreement...

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Eloquence

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Sophisticis Elenchis (c. 350 BC) Topics (c. 350 BC) De Inventione (84 BC) Rhetorica ad Herennium (80 BC) De Oratore (55 BC) A Dialogue Concerning Oratorical Partitions...

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Herennius

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BC) Gaius Herennius (otherwise unknown), addressee of the book Rhetorica ad Herennium Marcus Herennius Picens (consul 34 BC) Herennius Senecio (died c...

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