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The Stoic rhetoricians denounced celebratory (epideictic) oratory as mere flattery.— Powell's Books: Overview
He was shocked, too, failing to perceive its note of defiant bitterness, by a laugh from Lucian and his careless, "My felicitations, Atticus, on your welding of dirge and exhortation into one epideictic oration!— Roads from Rome
The epideictic orators became less orators and more poets, and the poets cultivated less the characteristic vividness and movement of poetic than those turns of style which began in oratory Thus it was very natural that the discussions of artistic prose in the treatises of the later rhetoricians should be copiously illustrated by quotations from the poets, and that the poets should, in turn, be influenced in the direction of further sophistical niceties by the rhetorical treatises on style, such as those of Demetrius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, who devoted whole treatises to style alone.— Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism
It would be possible to follow the old divisions of the Palatine Anthology with little change but for the epideictic section.— Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
Many again are to be found among the miscellaneous section of epideictic epigrams.— Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
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