This is doubtless why Lucretius, first of all the Romans, could in his prooemium bring back to nature that sensuousness which through the songs of the troubadours has become the central theme of romantic poetry even to our day.
Vergil was, therefore, following a high authority in the case of Caesar, and was drawing the logical inference in the case of Octavian when he wrote the first Eclogue and the prooemium of the Georgics.
The prooemium of the Epistle is the subjective version of the objective historical point of view which we find at the close of the preface to the Gospel.
There is the compendium of the prooemium of the Gospel.
This may well lead us to expect that Logos should be used in the same sense in the prooemium of the great Epistle by the same author.
Yet combining its prooemium with the other of the fourth Gospel, we have the most perfect statement of the dogma of the Incarnation.
Ninety-four fables and a prooemium were still in a convent at Mount Athos; but the monks, who made difficulty about parting with the first parchment, refused to let the second go abroad.
We have seen that when Cicero found it too late to withdraw the first edition of the Academica from circulation, he affixed a prooemium to each book, Catulus being lauded in the first, Lucullus in the second.
It is difficult to see where this passage could have been included if not in that prooemium to the third book which is mentioned Ad.
De gloria librum ad te misi: at in eo prooemium id est, quod in Academico tertio.
From the passages above quoted, and from our knowledge of Cicero's habit in such matters, we can have no difficulty in conjecturing at least a portion of the contents of the lost prooemium to the Catulus.
In all probability the extant prooemium of the Lucullus is the one which was then affixed.
The only case which Heitz really finds to sustain his remark, is the passage of the Prooemium (i.
Bonitz in his note contests it, and refers to his own theory, set forth in his Prooemium pp.
The prooemium to the Timaeus introduces us to three persons[146]: Kritias and Hermokrates, along with Sokrates.
It was questioned by Eusebius in his mention of theProoemium of Papias.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prooemium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
