Abstract:Prison scenes recur throughout the corpus of Latin declamatory texts (Seneca, Calpurnius Flaccus, Pseudo-Quintilian). After outlining the main features and variants of this topos, this article discusses its genesis and development. The form declamatory carceres take is determined both by important literary models and by a dynamic of imitation inherent to declamatory discourse. Taking the designation of the carcer as an exemplum as its point of departure, this article proceeds to explore different approaches—persuasive, meta-rhetorical, and sociological—to the function of this common declamatory image.

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罗马宣言中的 Carcer：Topos 的形成和功能

摘要：监狱场景在拉丁文告诫文本（Seneca、Calpurnius Flaccus、Pseudo-Quintilian）中反复出现。在概述了该拓扑的主要特征和变体之后，本文讨论了它的起源和发展。声明式carceres采取的形式由重要的文学模型和声明式话语固有的模仿动态决定。本文以将癌症作为范例作为出发点，继续探索不同的方法——说服的、元修辞的和社会学的——来发挥这种共同的宣告形象的作用。