raptus

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Noun	1.	raptus - a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease; "he suffered an epileptic seizure" ictus, seizure attack - a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition; "an attack of diarrhea" convulsion - violent uncontrollable contractions of muscles focal seizure - transitory disturbance in motor or sensory function resulting from abnormal cortical activity raptus hemorrhagicus - seizure caused by a sudden profuse hemorrhage absence seizure, absence - the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy
	2.	raptus - a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens ecstasy, exaltation, rapture, transport emotional state, spirit - the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection); "his emotional state depended on her opinion"; "he was in good spirits"; "his spirit rose"

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raptus

L. raptus, arrebato, ataque súbito violento.

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prima dolo gaudens et tanto concita voto it Venus et raptus metitur corde futuros, iam durum flexura Chaos, iam Dite subacto ingenti famulos Manes ductura triumpho.

Inspired by these scholars' works, I shall consider Claudian's reception and deployment of classical generic poetics within the changed configurations of literary genres in the fourth century in a few selected passages of the De raptu Proserpinae.

(2) A subject of recent scholarly interest, the unfinished epic De raptu on the abduction and marriage of Proserpina stands out from Claudian's corpus as an endeavor motivated largely by his literary ambition to treat an important myth that had never been told in a separate epic.

Indeed, if the erotic discourse of elegy in De raptu intrudes upon the martial discourse of the epic a la Ovid to destabilize the authority built upon the latter, it is mediated at times through the hexameter epithalamium that serves as the generic counterpart to the mediating figure of Proserpina in the narrative.

Honorius then bursts forth with a bachelor's complaint (20-22), similar to Pluto's address to Jove (De raptu 1.93-116).

This trio of similarities compels us to consider the new genre that the fortunes of literary history seem to have forced into our reading of De raptu. Claudian was the first to imitate the genre of wedding songs in hexameter which Statius had created with the Epithalamium in Stellam et Violentillam (Silv.

(13) In the next three sections, we will see that De raptu's amatory language and sexual politics, while deriving from elegiac discourse, are pressed by the narrative into the service of marital teleology--hardly a typical focus of elegy.

Hellish love: genre in Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae

He also suggests that Ficino attached a special importance to the raptus Pauli, i.e., Paul's experience at Damascus.

Synoptic Art: Marsilio Ficino on the History of Platonic Interpretation & Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Convegno internazionale di studi nel cinquecentesimo anniversario della morte (1494-1994) & Die Erlosungslehre Marsilio Ficinos

Euthymiae Raptus; or the Teares of Peace (1609) is Chapman's major poem, but his verse is not well known in the 20th century.

Chapman, George

Anna Morisi-Guerra, the authority on the topic, takes us through the necessary initiation: an account of the Apocalypsis Nova, "the summa of the culture of a time of crisis," with its prophecy in its fourth raptus of the coming of a Pastor Angelicus.