Citations:prosopopœiæ

Noun: plural of

 * 1805, Quintilian and W. Guthrie, Quinctilian’s Institutes of Eloquence, Dewick and Clarke; Volume I., Book IV., Part III., page #246:
 * Upon this head I recommend the same rules I did when I treated of the introduction and of the prosopopœiæ.
 * 1827, Jeremiah Jones, A New and Full Method of Settling the Canonical Authority of the New Testament, The Clarendon Press; Volume I., Chapter XII., page #70:
 * Under this may be included the style in which there are many prosopopœiæ ; i. e. when inanimate things are introduced in the discourse, and addressed to as persons : this is frequent in Moses k, David l , and the Prophets m.
 * 1881, Léon Brédif and M. J. Mac Mahon, Political Eloquence in Greece, S. C. Griggs and Company; Chapter VI., page #218:
 * His prosopopœiæ are of such an Attic sobriety that they could find place in a pleading.
 * 1882, F. A. White, English Grammar, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.; part III., Chapter I., page #186:
 * The possessive case is now only used (1) in the case of living agents—as “ The poet’s harp ; ” “ The elephant’s proboscis ; ” (2) in prosopopœiæ—as “ Reason’s voice ; ” (3) before sake—as “ For pity’s sakes ; ” (4) in certain phrases—as “ A month’s holiday.”