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"Coming to terms with the rhetorical arts of antiquity necessarily illuminates our own ideas of public discourse and the habits of speech to which they have led. Tacitus wrote the Dialogus at a time (ca. 100 CE) when intense scrutiny of the history, the definitions, and the immediate relevance of public speech were all being challenged and refashioned by a host of vibrant intellects and ambitious practitioners. This book challenges the notion that Tacitus sought to explain the decline of oratory under the Principate. Rather, from examination of the dynamics of argument in the dialogue and the underlying literary traditions there emerges a sophisticated consideration of eloquentia in the Roman Empire. Tacitus emulates Cicero's legacy and challenges his position at the top of Rome's oratorical canon. He further shows that eloquentia is a means by which to compete with the power of the Principate"--

Dissertations (M.D.), University of Maryland (1812-1920), School of Medicine, 1833-1834. ; This volume contains the following manuscripts described as either an Inaugural Dissertation or an Inaugural Essay presented to the University of Maryland for the Degree of "Doctor of Medicine" or "Doctor of Physic": Arachnitis or Inflammation of the Arachnoid Membrane / by Johnson, Edward 1833; Rheumatism / by Butler, Francis 1834; Bilious Remittent Fever / by Boteler, John T. 1834?; Epilepsy / by Ashton, Charles L. 1834; Apoplexy / by Rowland, William B. 1834; Cholera Infantum / by Robertson, George J. 1834; Apoplexy / by Brown, John H. 1834; Cellular Tissue / by Muse, James A. 1834; The Importance of Legislative Enactments for the Suppression of Empirism / by Tyson, A. H. 1834; Pathology, Cause and Treatment of Dyspepsia / by Stanton, William 1834; Epilepsy / by Ghiselin, William 1834; Are There Such Agents as Miasmata Which Acting on the System Produce Bilious Fever? / by McGill, Thomas J. 1834; The Reciprocal Influence of Mind and Body / by Rose, William R. 1834; Scarlet Fever / by Author Unknown 18uu; Chronic Enteritis / by Garlick, Theodatus 1834; Therapeutics / by John F. Leigh 1834; Chronic Diseases of the Nervous System / by Cabell, John L. 1834; Lepra Tuberculosa / by Carr, Samuel John 1834; Purgatives: Their Properties, Uses and Effects as Medicines and Remedial Means / by Brown, Catesby G. 1834; Menorrhagia / by Hutchins, Nicholas 1834; Cholera Spasmodica / by Wilson, Josiah N. 1834; Hydrocyanic Acid / by Frampton, Lingard H. 1834; Eupatorium Perfoliatum / by Power, James 1834; De Concoctione / by Sams, Carleton C. 1834. Some manuscripts in Latin and French. ; http://www.archive.org/details/universityofmary3334 ; somtheses1833-1834a