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Protreptical
Protreptical Pro*trep"tic*al, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to turn forward, to urge on.] Adapted to persuade; hortatory; persuasive. [Obs.] --Bp. Ward.

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- is explained by Stanley Stowers thus: In this discussion I will use protreptic in reference to hortatory literature that calls the audience to a new...
- dialogue ****ophon seems to narrate his changes towards justice and the protreptic from seeing Socrates as a god upon a stage with hopes and beliefs in attaining...
- speaker and politician Quintus Hortensius Hortalus—took the form of a protreptic. In the work, Cicero, Hortensius, Quintus Lutatius Catulus, and Lucius...
- One was an extremely free translation (or rather a paraphrase) of The Protreptic of Galen (Paraphrase de C. GALIEN, sus l'Exhortation de Menodote aux estudes...
- παραινέτικος πρὸς Ἕλληνας) is an Ancient Gr**** Christian paraenetic or protreptic text in thirty-eight chapters. Although the work is anonymous, it was...
- Protrepticus (Ancient Gr****: Προτρεπτικός) may refer to: Protrepticus (Aristotle), an exhortation to philosophy by Aristotle, which survives in fragmentary...
- Scotland. Gould 1970, p. 7, citing Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 179; Galen, Protreptic, 7; de Differentia Pulsuum, 10 Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 182 Diogenes Laërtius...
- personal road to conversion. This identification is an element of the protreptic and paraenetic character of the Confessions. Due to the nature of Confessions...
- beings. Aristotle's protrepticus is likely the origin of the English word Protreptics, which means, “turning or converting someone to a specific end” used...
- a larger non-Pauline interpolation. David Aune says Paul is taking a protreptic approach, meaning that Paul taught on homoeroticism orally and then consolidated...