enthymemata
Dictionary entries
- Entry →enthymema, enthymematis:
Neuter · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Cassell's Latin Dictionary
- Field:
- Literature
thought, line of thought, argument; kind of syllogism;
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
- M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...deprecatione, confessione positae: sententiolisne flendum erit? epiphonemata aut enthymemata exorabunt? non quidquid meris adicietur adfectibus omnis eorum diluet..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...oportuerit, deinde quid factum sit), enantioteta (unde sint enthymemata kat'enantiosin), metalempsin etiam, quo statu Hermagoras utitur. CVII..."
