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
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..."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..."
