On the polysemy of elegantia. From Plautus to Fronto

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  • Santiago López Moreda Universidad de Extremadura

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23808/rel.v3i0.87950

Keywords:

elegantia; etymology; semantic field; grammar; rhetoric.

Abstract

Despite its pervasiveness in the Latin prose, the concept of «elegantia» has not deserved the necessary attention, presumably owing to the analytic difficulty involved in the simultaneous activation of several semantic fields. Through a combination of methods etymological, synchronic-comparative and diachronic, we shed light on the meaning of the term as well as its function in Latin from Plauto to Fronto as the foundations of the rhetorical and grammatical languages which have survived until the present day.

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Published

2004-12-27

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López Moreda, S. (2004) “On the polysemy of elegantia. From Plautus to Fronto”, Revista de Estudios Latinos, 3, pp. 45–69. doi: 10.23808/rel.v3i0.87950.

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Vol. 3 (2003)

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