OBSECRATIO  

呼吁鬼神法 Emphatic rhetorical appeal to the gods or divinities.

Hypernym
  • ADDRESSSPEECH ACT of explicitly addressing an audience.
    • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
      • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
EX: Virgil Aen. 3.600 per superos atque hoc caelum;

REF: Lausberg 759f

Greek/Latin: Quintilian 6.1.33. Defined in Rufinus 16.

Ancient Chinese: Some good examples for Confucius, but otherwise very rare in the literature we have of appeal to the gods, but not, as far as I have been able to see, in connection with pleas or demands.

    Rhetorical device locations: 3