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recusatio: a standalone construct

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a poetic device in which a poet declines to write grand epic or praise poetry, often while partly doing so, a Callimachean gesture in Latin verse.

In classics, recusatio refers to a poetic device in which a poet declines to write grand epic or praise poetry, often while partly doing so, a Callimachean gesture in Latin verse. This meaning comes from Wimmel (1960) in Kallimachos in Rom.[1]

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  1. Wimmel, W. (1960). Kallimachos in Rom. F. Steiner. Open Library record

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