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Encyclopedia Britannica



PANEGYRIC

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 677 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAI-PAS
PANEGYRIC , strictly a formal public speech delivered in high praise of a person or thing, and generally high studied or undiscriminating eulogy. It is derived from 7raeflyvpiKes (a speech) " fit for a general assembly " (7ravtityvpts, panegyris). In Athens such speeches were delivered at national festivals or games, with the object of rousing the citizens to emulate the glorious deeds gf their ancestors. The most famous are the Olympiacus of Gorgias, the Olympiacus of Lysias, and the Panegyricus and Panathenaicus (neither of them, however, actually delivered) of Isocrates. Funeral orations, such as the famous speech put into the mouth of Pericles by Thucydides, also partook of the nature of panegyrics. The Romans confined the panegyric to the living, and reserved the funeral oration exclusively for the dead. The most celebrated example of a Latin panegyric (panegyricus) is that delivered by the younger Pliny (A.D. zoo) in the senate on the occasion of his assumption of the consulship, containing a somewhat fulsome eulogy of Trajan. Towards the end of the 3rd and during the 4th century, as a result of the orientalizing of the Imperial court by Diocletian, it became customary to celebrate as a matter of course the superhuman virtues and achievements of the reigning emperor. Twelve speeches of the kind (Pliny's included), eight of them by famous Gallic rhetoricians (
Claudius
  Mamertinus, Eumenius,
Nazarius
 , Drepanius Pacatus) and three of
anonymous
  author-ship, have been collected under the title of Panegyrici veteres latini (ed. E. Bahrens, 1874). Speaking generally, they are characterized by a stilted, affected style and a tone of
gross
  adulation. There are extant similar orations by Ausonius,
six or seven strings, one played by a Moor; both have the tail-piece in the form of a
crescent
 .
6 See
Hammer
  von Purgstall on the " Seven Seas," in Jahrbiicher der Literatur, xxxvi. 290 (Vienna, 1826).
3 Syntagma musicum (Wolfenbuttel, 1618), pl. xvii. and ch. 28, 63; reprint in Publik. d. Ges. f. Musikforschung (Berlin, 1884), Jahrgang XII.
See Dr F. J.
Furnivall
 's edition of Captain Cox or Robert Lane-ham's
letter
 , Ballad Society (London, 1871), p. 67.
3 See Gabinetto armonico, ch. 49, pl. 97 (Rome, 1722).
Symmachus and Ennodius, and panegyrics in verse by Claudian, Merobaudes, Priscian, Corippus and others.
See C. G. Heyne, " Censura xii. panegyricorum veterum," in his
Opuscula academica (1812), vi. 8o-118; H. Rihl, De xii panegyricis latinis (progr. Greifswald, 1868) ; R. Pichin, Les Derniers ecrivains profanes (Paris, 1906).


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