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encomium

a formal expression of praise; eulogy; panegyric

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Composed for the ears of the pantomime fan, an epainos of dancing required the tropes befitting an endoxon encomion, the eloge of honorable things (see, e.g., Menander Rhetor 1.346).

"A worthless feminine thing"? Lucian and the "Optic Intoxication" of pantomime dancing

This work has survived in a unique printed copy, Sir Thomas Wrothe His Sad Encomion, Upon his Dearest Consort, Dame Margaret Wrothe (1635), now in the Huntington Library, California (RB 79888).

'A person of good breeding and great curtesy': Jane Wharton's eulogy of her husband, Sir Thomas Wharton (1615-1684)

Das theur und kunstlich buochlin Morie Encomion, das ist ein Lob der Thorhait, von Erasmo Roterodamo schimpfflich gespilt ...