agnominatio
μή, φίλα ψυχά, βίον ἀθάνατον σπεῦδε, τὰν δ' ἔμπρακτον ἄντλει μαχανάν → Oh! my soul do not aspire to eternal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible. | Do not yearn, O my soul, for immortal life! Use to the utmost the skill that is yours. | Do not, my soul, strive for the life of the immortals, but exhaust the practical means at your disposal.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
agnōmĭnātĭo: (adn-), ōnis, f.,
I the bringing together two words different in meaning, but similar in sound, paronomasia, a rhet. fig., = παρονομασία: veniit a te antequam Romam venit. Hunc ăvium dulcedo ducit ad āvium. Si lenones tamquam leones vitāsset. Videte judices, utrum homini navo an vano credere malitis, etc., Auct. ad Her. 4, 21; cf. Quint. 9, 3, 66.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
agnōmĭnātĭō, ōnis, v. adnominatio.
Latin > German (Georges)
agnōminātio, ōnis, f. (ad u. nomino), als rhetor. Figur = παρονομασία, das Zusammenstellen zweier dem Klange nach ähnlicher, der Bedeutung nach ganz verschiedener Wörter, die Paronomasie (wie lenones u. leones u. dgl.), s. Cornif. rhet. 4, 29 u. (Plur.) 32. Quint. 6, 3, 66. Iul. Rufin. de schem. lex. 15.
