单词 | consolatio |
释义 | consolation. A consolatory treatise, letter, or poem (sometimes an alternation of prose and verse) in Greek, Latin, or a vernacular tongue, setting forth philosophical or religious themes as comfort for the misfortunes of life. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > consolatory consolatory1654 consolatio1935 1935 H. R. Patch Trad. Boethius 121 Writers..borrowed from the scheme of Boethius without catching anything of his spirit. This is more or less true in the numerous debates with Fortune, in the many remote Consolationes, and in the works which took advantage of the variety gained by alternating prose and verse. 1953 W. R. Trask tr. E. R. Curtius European Lit. v. 80 Agius of Corvey heightens this biblical consolatio in the poem he composed in 876 on the death of the Abbess Hathamod. 1953 W. R. Trask tr. E. R. Curtius European Lit. v. 81 As the writers of consolationes discovered, it makes little difference whether a person dies young or old. 1963 G. N. Garmonsway in Brown & Foote Early Eng. & Norse Studies vii. 82 A paraphrase of verses from the Book of Job in the Office of the Dead written c. 1424 as a consolatio for the imprisoned Duke of Bedford. 1969 T. P. Dunning & A. J. Bliss Wanderer 80 The poem is an example..of the genre consolatio. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1935 |
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