Crossword-Solution: ORATIO 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

With full knowledge of these circumstances, Lessing called it not a drama, but a dramatic poem; and he might have called it still more accurately a didactic poem, for the only feature which it has in common with the drama is that the personages use the oratio directa.

But if you throw the dialogue into the ‘oratio obliqua,’ the passage will run thus: The priest came and prayed Apollo that the Achaeans might take Troy and have a safe return if Agamemnon would only give him back his daughter; and the other Greeks assented, but Agamemnon was wroth, and so on—The whole then becomes descriptive, and the poet is the only speaker left; or, if you omit the narrative, the whole becomes dialogue.

See for the opposite view the praises of Sforza’s luck in the _Oratio parentalis de divi Francesci Sphortiæ felicitate_, by Filelfo (the ready eulogist of any master who paid him), who sung, without publishing, the exploits of Francesco in the Sforziad.

Pici oratio de hominis dignitate._ The passage is as follows: ‘Statuit tandem optimus opifex ut cui dari nihil proprium poterat commune esset quidquid privatum singulis fuerat.

Pici oratio de hominis dignitate {pg 354 fn 805} he gives us a humorout description=> he gives us a humorous description {pg 387} Cronaco di Perugia, Arch.