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H. Kornhardt: Exemplum. Eine bedeutungsgeschichtliche Studie. Pp. viii + 95. Diss. phil. Göttingen, 1936. Paper.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2009
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1 Like Lichfield, A. W., National exempla virtutis in Roman literature, Harv. Stud. 25 (1914)Google Scholar, a study not referred to, Miss K. calls them exempla virtutis, although she knows it to be wrong.
2 A plausible explanation is offered, and aptly illustrated by an amusing collection of parallels from modern languages, for the development of expressions like exemplis pessumis excrudare. Here a more lexicographical presentation would have shown that the singular is never used, a fact surely of some semasiological significance.