prologus
prologus, a preface to a play, prologue
- Lit., a preface or introduction to a play, a prologue, Ter. Phorm. 14: in prologis scribundis operā abutitur, id. And. 5: in Hydriae (Menandri) prologo, Quint. 11, 3, 91: in prologo Adelphorum, Suet. Vit. Ter. 2.—
- II Transf., the player who delivers the prologue: oratorem esse voluit me, non prologum, Ter. Heaut. 11; id. Hec. 1 (prō-, v. Wagn. ad Ter. Heaut. 11).
tristem vultum pretendunt, ~um premittunt et a longe inchoant
incipit ~us in librum monstrorum
antequam veniat ad titulum sequentis voluminis ‥ ~os ‥ aliquorum adactos inveniet, ut ei si facile non occurrerint spaciosa volumina, saltem ibi summatim reperiat
de quo Beda in ~o historie Anglorum testatur
Boetius in ~o hypotheticorum syllogismorum
dividitur ‥ constitucio [sc. apostolica ] in tres partes, viz. in proemium seu ~um, tractatum, et conclusionem
in primis de ~o Hieronimi in Genesi
Ieronymus ‥ in primo bibliothece ~o
unde in ~is Biblie sepe obelus et acuitur penultima, cum tamen debet gravari
liber qui dicitur Brito super ~os Biblie
beatus Hieronymus insinuat in ~o Biblie
Bruto super omnes ~os Biblie
- 1. inleiding, proloog;
- 2. (kom.) iem. die de proloog uitspreekt.
- , πρόλογος, a preface to a play, prologue: Nullum invenire prologum, T.—One who recites a prologue, T.
(πρόλογος). A technical term applied to that part of a Greek drama which precedes the entrance of the first chorus. From the time of Euripides it came to mean a monologue containing a narrative of the facts introductory to the main action, and this is the meaning which the word possessed in the language of Roman comedy. It is thus opposed to ἐπίλογος, the concluding part of the play. Aristotle compares the prologue to the prelude in a piece of music (Rhet. iii. 14, 1). The word is also applied to the actor who speaks the Prologue. In some plays there are two speakers of this sort— e. g. in the Alcestis of Euripides and the Trinummus of Plautus. Terence uses the Prologue as a means of personal communication on the part of the author to the public and as a vehicle for replying to adverse criticism (e. g. in the Andria). (See Liebig, De Prologis Terentianis et Plautinis [Görlitz, 1859].) The tables of contents prefixed to the divisions of books are also called prologi, as those of the lost history of Pompeius Trogus. See Hallberg, De Trogo Pompeio (Paris, 1869).