Erotema - A question that is asked without expecting an answer because the answer is strongly implied; a rhetorical question.
I.E. - “How long, O Catiline, will you abuse our patience? And for how long will that madness of yours mock us? To what end will your unbridled audacity hurl itself?”
-Cicero
"Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?" (Julius Caesar, Act 3, scene 2)
ReplyDelete"The means are at hand to fulfill the age-old dream: poverty can be abolished. How long shall we ignore this under-developed nation in our midst? How long shall we look the other way while our fellow human beings suffer? How long"
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What have the Romans ever done for us? (Monty Python's Life of Brian)
ReplyDelete'Do you see this, O God?' Hamlet, William Shakespeare
ReplyDelete"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"
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