Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
A general category of oratory.
A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.
A custom or ceremony pertaining to the recently dead, such as a funeral, public burial, or the Greek custom of breaking clayen vessels on the grave or in front of the deceased's house.