PRAETERITIO 假省略法
HISTRIONIC mentioning of a matter with refusal to specifying relevant details that would be of interest to the intended audience.
Explicit omission of a subject, often used as an excuse to do exactly what one is announcing one will not do.
Hypernym
- HISTRIONICSRHETORICAL TROPE which crucially involves playful dissimulation of one's real meaning.
- RHETORICAL
TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of
expressions.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
REF: Lausberg 882-886
Greek/Latin: Martianus Capella 38.523 paraleipsis, praeteritio: frequens est huius figurae usus, ubi quasi praetermittentes quaedam nihilominus dicimus. Aquila 8: paraleipsis est praeteritio, cum quasi praetermittentes quaedam nihilominus dicimus.
Sueton, Life of Julius Caesar 49.1f: omitto Calvi Licini notissimos versus: Bithynia quicquid et pedicator Caesaris umquam habuit. praetereo actiones Dolabellae et Curionis patris in quibus..., missa etiam facio edicta Biboli quibus ....
Chaucer, Knight's Tale 2061-2108 is the largest PRAETERITIO that I have come across.
Ancient Chinese: Absent, but developed in post-Buddhist times.
Greek/Latin: Martianus Capella 38.523 paraleipsis, praeteritio: frequens est huius figurae usus, ubi quasi praetermittentes quaedam nihilominus dicimus. Aquila 8: paraleipsis est praeteritio, cum quasi praetermittentes quaedam nihilominus dicimus.
Sueton, Life of Julius Caesar 49.1f: omitto Calvi Licini notissimos versus: Bithynia quicquid et pedicator Caesaris umquam habuit. praetereo actiones Dolabellae et Curionis patris in quibus..., missa etiam facio edicta Biboli quibus ....
Chaucer, Knight's Tale 2061-2108 is the largest PRAETERITIO that I have come across.
Ancient Chinese: Absent, but developed in post-Buddhist times.
- The Speeches of Cicero ( MACKENDRICK 1995) p.
- Historisches Woerterbuch der Rhetorik
(
UEDING
1992ff)
p.
7.27