10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APOPEMPTIC»
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(\1. apopemptic. declaration. Everyday memories lucid haunting images of you...
of when you were close. hearing your voice in my memory I searched for you,
finding shadows of our past (pictures and letters) in a cardboard box now long ...
Jay O'Connell, John Terris, 2001
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The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, ...
APOPEMPTIC- ration of the last hours and words of the wise man, with an
explanation of the reasons why he preferred death, by which he seemed
elevated above his accusers, more than he would by a formal defence, which he
scorned to ...
3
Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity
The only exceptions are apopemptic and "scientific" hymns. Apopemptic hymns
are "very rare" and are performed only at certain (and very ancient) shrines —
such as the shrines of Apollo at Delos and Miletus and the shrine of Artemis at ...
Jeffrey Walker Professor of English Emory University, 2000
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ElderSpeak: A Thesaurus or Compendium of Words Related to ...
end-of-life, death: acrotism, advesperate, biometry, alieni juris, apopemptic,
apoptosis, apud se, athanasia, brumal, cenotaph, Cerberus, cerements, chthonic,
cinerarium, cinerary, cinereous, coimetromania, coimetrophilia, coimetrophobia,
...
James L. Reynolds, MD, 2014
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Music and the Muses: The Culture of 'mousikē' in the ...
Another scenario for theoric song-dance is an 'apopemptic' performance, in
which departing theoroi were given a send-off hy a khoros who stayed at home,
possihly in the context of a festival. Plutarch descrihes a pilgrimage made hy the
...
Penelope Murray, Peter Wilson, 2004
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Bell's New Pantheon; or Historical dictionary of the gods, ...
APONE, afountain in Italy, near Padua, the waters of which communicated the gift
of divination. APOPEMPTIC. The ancients had certainly holy days on which they
took leave of the gods, as supposing each of them returning to his own country.
247-8 Warnings were made earlier about the curses of ornatrices on the head (
241), and now (humorously overblown) apopemptic curses are placed on the
coiffure of Rome's enemies. For the auersio or prayer that an evil depart onto
another ...
Ovid, Roy K. Gibson, 2003
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Bell's New Pantheon; Or, Historical Dictionary of the Gods, ...
APONE, a fountain in Italy, near Padua, the waters of which communicated the
gift of divination. APOPEMPTIC. The ancients had certainly holy days on which
they took leave of the gods, as supposing each of them returning to his own
country.
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Conversations with William F. Buckley Jr
So, of course I looked it up, because I didn't know what it meant, and it's different
from valedictorian, because an apopemptic speech, if memory serves, is usually
what the ruler gives to the pilgrims en route somewhere. His sort of final ...
William Frank Buckley, William F. Meehan, 2009
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The Encyclopædia Britannica, or, Dictionary of arts, ...
Ord. 1521. APOPEMPTIC (aVorre/xTTTUca), in Ancient Poetry, a hymn
addressed to a stranger on his departure from a place to his own country. The
ancients had certain holydays wherein they took leave of the gods with
apopemptic songs, ...
