panegyricus
panegyricus, of a public assembly, festival
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panegyricum Adjective: neuter nominative singular, Adjective: neuter accusative singular, Adjective: neuter genitive plural, Adjective: neuter vocative singular, Adjective: masculine genitive plural, Adjective: masculine accusative singular, Noun: masculine genitive plural, Noun: masculine accusative singular of panegyricus
- of or belonging to a public assembly or festival; hence, subst.: pănēgy-rĭcus, i, m., the festival oration of Isocrates, in which he eulogized the Athenians, Cic. Or. 11, 37; Quint. 10, 4, 4.—
- II Transf., praising, laudatory, eulogistic: libelli, panegyrics, Aus. Prof. 1, 13.—More freq. subst.: pănēgyrĭcus, i, m., a eulogy, panegyric, Quint. 2, 10, 11; cf. id. 3, 4, 14: etiam malos panegyricis mendacibus adulantur, Lact. 1, 15, 13.
vestrae Latinitatis panagericus rumor(
panagericis, laudabilibus
panagericon, laudabilem
hujus regis [sc. Oswaldi ] laudes historia panagerico prosequitur stilo
pangericus, laudando decantatus
panagericum poemataque ‥ Prosatori ‥ promulgantes
omnibus ‥ panagericis tam saecularium litterariae verbositatis facundia editorum quam etiam spiritalium ecclesiastici dogmatis stilo elucubratorum plenissime voluminum scriptis imbuta arcana liberalium litterarum studia(
panagericum, †cevairistias [l. eucharistias ], laudabilem eruditionem
pannigericus, in laudibus
ergo Thalia comes, Malcho panagerica promes
quia non historiam sed panagericum scripsit
panigericus, sermones, glose(
ne pannagericon videar conscripsisse
panagericum, licensiosum et lasciviosum genus dicendi
Lausin promptu dicta. Gloss. Isidori.
- , πανηγυρικός, of a public assembly, festival.—As substm. (sc. liber), a festival oration of Isocrates.
(πανηγυρικός). The name given among the Greeks to a speech delivered before a πανήγυρις—that is, an assembly of the whole nation on the occasion of the celebration of a festival, such as the Panathenaea and the four great national games. This oration had reference to the feast itself, or was intended to inspire the assembled multitude with emulation by praising the great deeds of their ancestors, and also to urge them to unanimous co-operation against their common foes. The most famous compositions of this kind which have been preserved are the Panegyricus and Panathenaïcus of Isocrates, neither of which, however, was actually delivered in public. In later times eulogies upon individuals were so named. This kind of composition was especially cultivated under the Roman Empire by Greeks and Romans. In Roman literature the most ancient example of this kind which remains is the eulogy of the emperor Trajan, delivered by the younger Pliny in the Senate, A.D. 100, thanking the emperor for conferring on him the consulate —a model which subsequent ages vainly endeavoured to imitate. It forms, together with eleven orations of Mamertinus, Eumenius, Nazarius, Pacatus Drepanius, and other unknown representatives of the Gallic school of rhetoric from the end of the third and the whole of the fourth centuries A.D., the extant collection of the Panegyrici Latini. Besides these we possess similar orations by Symmachus, Ausonius, and Eunodius. There are also a considerable number of poetical panegyrics—e. g. one upon Messala, composed in the year B.C. 31, and wrongly attributed to Tibullus; one by an unknown author of the Neronian time upon Calpurnius Piso; and others by Claudian, Sidonius Apollinaris, Merobaudes, Corippus, Priscian, and Venantius Fortunatus (q.v.).
There are editions of the panegyrici by Beatus Rhenanus (Basle, 1520), Livineius (Antwerp, 1599), Rittershusius, with notes (Frankfort, 1607), Schwarz (Altdorf, 1739-48), Arntzen (Utrecht, 1790-95), and Bährens (Leipzig, 1874). See Rühl, De Panegyricis Duodecim Latinis (Greifswald, 1868).