proemium

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a preface, preamble, or brief introduction, as to a book or other work.
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(33.) Gregory, Super cantica canticorum expositio, proemium, 3 (PL 79: 473).
Altera haec posterior, et novior a Britanno quodam traducta, cuius etiam proemium legimus, in quo et Fratrem se Ordinis Praedicatorum scribit, et rogatu confratrum de his transferendis laborem suscepisse.
Literary programmatic material naturally appears in the poem's proemium (1-8):
(32.) 'Sed posset poni quod talia [intentio animae seu conceptus] non sunt verae qualitates mentis, nec sunt entia realia exsistentia subiective in anima, sed tantum sunt quaedam cognita ab anima, ita quod esse eorum non est aliud quam ipsa cognosci...' Proemium Expositio inLibrum Perihermeneias I; OPh 2: 359.8-11.
Quintilian distinguishes five main partes orationis: proemium or introduction, statement of facts, proof, refutation, and peroration (3.8).
Gareth Williams's construal of the proemium to On the Shortness of Life, based on his own 2003 text (Cambridge), is no more accurate than that of Basore's (Loeb, 1932).
Nonetheless, his Latin corresponds to Aquinas's Latin Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics Book I: "Sicut enim, ut in libro praedicto Philosophus dicit, homines intellectu vigentes, naturaliter aliorum rectores et Domini sunt: homines vero qui sunt robusti corpore, intellectu vero deficientes, sunt naturaliter servi" (Proemium).
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