Book 5 — SYNOPTIC INDEX
Reading edition
[For further references see the alphabetical index following.]
MEDIEVAL RHETORIC
A. Sources
I. Inheritance of declamatio, as typically through Sidonius, 77-87
II. Authorities
1. De inventione (rhetorica prima), 89, 152, 175
2. Rhetorica ad Herennium (rhetorica secunda), 90, 181
3. Ars poetica, 86, 88, 129, 159
4. (secondary) Martianus Capella, 92-95, 179, 193
5. (occasional) Cicero, De oratore, 143; Quintilian, 169, 175
B. Fields
[Of the three ancient fields, deliberative, forensic, and occasional, the characteristically medieval use was of the third.]
I. Dictamen, 206-227
II. Preaching, 51-73, 228-257
C. Components
I. Investigation (inventio) largely transferred to dialectica (which see, and also judicium, status, topica), 172, 182, 192
1. inventio perverted, 187, 191
II. Order (dispositio) little taught, 171, 180, 196; perverted, 179
1. conventional items for encomium, 30-32, 187
2. natural order and artistic, 180
3. traditional parts
a. exordium (in dictamen), 215, 221
b. statement (narratio, in dictamen), 215, 222
(1) narratio perverted to narrative, 193
(2) fabula, historia, argumentum, 161, 175
c. argument (confirmatio, refutatio) largely transferred to dialectica
(1) petitio (in dictamen), 215, 222
d. conclusion, 222
III. Style (elocutio)
1. diction
a. three styles (tenue, medium, grande), 68, 144, 216
(1) Rota Virgili, 192
(2) high style, 270, 292
b. elegance (with review of correctness), 82, 216
c. aptness
(1) conformity to type, 35, 159, 187
(2) in dictamen, especially important for salutatio, 220, 221
d. elaboration (ornatus, dignitas), 79, 82, 216, 219
(1) descriptive dilation (through poetria), 85, 174, 180, 186, 294
(2) figures (in poetria and dictamen) from Rhetorica ad Herennium
(a) figuræ verborum
1. repetitio, initial repetition
2. conversio, end repetition
3. complexio, 1 with 2
4. traductio, iteration
5. contentio, antithesis
6. exclamatio, exclamation
7. interrogatio, summary challenge
8. ratiocinatio, questioning oneself
9. sententia, apothegm
10. contrarium, putting the opposite
11. membrum, clause in relation
12. articulus, staccato
13. continuatio, closing series
14. compar, balance
15. similiter cadens, rime on inflections
16. similiter desinens, rime
17. annominatio, word-play
18. subiectio, suggestion of reply
19. gradatio, linking repetition
20. definitio, definition
21. transitio, linking summary
22. correctio, substitution
23. occupatio (occultatio, præteritio) specifying under cover of passing over
24. disiunctio, syntactical separation
25. coniunctio, syntactical combination
26. adiunctio, salient key-word
27. conduplicatio, iteration
28. interpretatio, repetition in other words
29. commutatio, chiasmus
30. permissio (concessio), yielding
31. dubitatio, feigned hesitation
32. expeditio, logical exclusion
33. dissolutio, asyndeton
34. præcisio (aposiopesis), unfinished sentence
35. conclusio, syllogistic summary
[the ten tropi]
36. nominatio, onomatopœia
37. pronominatio, title or epithet for name
38. denominatio, metonymy
39. circuitio, periphrasis
40. transgressio, hyperbaton
41. superlatio, hyperbole
42. intellectio, synecdoche
43. abusio, catachresis
44. translatio, metaphor
45. permutatio, allegorical or ironical allusion
(b) figuræ sententiarum
1. distributio, itemizing
2. licentia, boldness
3. diminutio, disparagement
4. descriptio, descriptive detail
5. divisio, dilemma
6. frequentatio, cumulation
7. expolitio, iteration
8. sermocinatio, direct discourse
9. commoratio, iteration
10. contentio, antithesis
11. similitudo, simile
12. exemplum, instance
13. imago, comparison
14. effictio, portrait
15. notatio, ethopœia
16. conformatio, prosopopœia
17. significatio, suggestion, insinuation
18. brevitas, rapid narration
19. demonstratio, ecphrasis
2. sentence movement (compositio), 83, 216
a. prosaicum (epistolare), metricum, rhythmicum, 220
b. stilus Aurelianensis, Hilarianus, Isidorianus, Romanus, Tullianus, 194, 217
c. distinctiones
(1) dependens (cæsum), 218
(2) constans (membrum), 218
(3) periodus (circuitus), 219
d. euphony, 83, 218, 221
e. balance, 42-48, 80, 145, 252
(1) prose rime, 252, 253
(2) refrain, 254-257
f. cadence, 69, 70, 250
(1) cursus: planus, tardus, velox, 223-227
IV. Delivery (237) and V. Memory (163) little discussed
MEDIEVAL POETIC
A. Poetica in School
I. Prælectio, 88, 129, 160-164
II. Metric and Verse-writing, 87, 96, 129, 131, 184
1. coöperative and cumulative school verse, 141, 191
2. merging of poetic with rhetoric, 76, 186, 193
a. doctrine from Ars poetica, 86, 159
b. figures from Rhetorica ad Herennium (see above)
III. Kinds of Poetry, 131, 175
B. Latin Poetry
I. Ambrosian Development, 116-118, 132
II. Corde natus Development, 119-121, 134, 201
III. Other Hymn Measures, 121, 122, 136-141
IV. Dactylic and Spondaic Effects, 122, 137, 198
V. Rime and Stanza, 141, 197-203
C. Symbolism
I. Allegory, 92, 104, 172, 173
II. Type, Prefiguration, Mysticism, 120, 124, 203-205, 239-245, 273-276
D. Vernacular Narrative
I. Epic: Germanic (intensive), 145-149; French (extensive), 259, 260
II. Romance
1. conventions of composition, 196, 261, 267, 281
2. salience and movement, 263, 268, 269, 275-277, 297
a. dialogue, 266, 286
3. characterization, 265-267, 287-289, 298
III. Oral Values and Habits, 245, 285, 301