Notas léxicas de Orencio

Abstract

The commonitorium, written in elegiac meters by Orientius (probably the bisoph of Auch, that could have composed it in the years 407-410), represents a typical product of the school of rhetoric of the 5th century Gallia. In particular the analysis of the formal level (compositional, stylistic and lexical aspects) gives an adequate idea of the poet’s literary orientation that always professes typically Christian argumentation, addressing the cultivated reader by means of a conscious use of classic rhetoric instruments. three passages are here analyzed as an example (1, 27-38; 2, 7-12; 2, 195-196).