[41] The rehearsal of all the conventionally appropriate _loci_ of description at the funeral of Arcite (A 2919-2966) sounds to modern ears impatient, if not sarcastic. But, after all, the whole long passage is the “colour” _occupatio_ (præteritio). The shorter _occupatio_ in the Squire’s Tale (F 63-75) suggests sarcasm less by itself than in its connection with lines 32-40 and 401-408 quoted above. [42] See W. W. Lawrence in _Modern Philology_, 11: no. 2 (October, 1913), with his references to Kittredge and Tatlock; and for a summary of considerations of the order of the tales, R. K. Root, _The poetry of Chaucer_, 153-159. SYNOPTIC INDEX [For further references see the alphabetical index following.] MEDIEVAL RHETORIC A. SOURCES I. Inheritance of _declamatio_, as typically through Sidonius, 77-87 II. Authorities 1. _De inventione_ (_rhetorica prima_), 89, 152, 175 2. _Rhetorica ad Herennium_ (_rhetorica secunda_), 90, 181 3. _Ars poetica_, 86, 88, 129, 159 4. (secondary) Martianus Capella, 92-95, 179, 193 5. (occasional) Cicero, _De oratore_, 143; Quintilian, 169, 175 B. FIELDS [Of the three ancient fields, deliberative, forensic, and occasional, the characteristically medieval use was of the third.] I. _Dictamen_, 206-227 II. _Preaching_, 51-73, 228-257 C. COMPONENTS I. Investigation (_inventio_) largely transferred to _dialectica_ (which see, and also _judicium_, _status_, _topica_), 172, 182, 192 1. _inventio_ perverted, 187, 191 II. Order (_dispositio_) little taught, 171, 180, 196; perverted, 179 1. conventional items for encomium, 30-32, 187 2. natural order and artistic, 180 3. traditional parts a. exordium (in _dictamen_), 215, 221 b. statement (_narratio_, in _dictamen_), 215, 222 (1) _narratio_ perverted to narrative, 193 (2) _fabula_, _historia_, _argumentum_, 161, 175 c. argument (_confirmatio_, _refutatio_) largely transferred to _dialectica_ (1) _petitio_ (in _dictamen_), 215, 222 d. conclusion, 222 III. Style (elocutio) 1. diction a. three styles (_tenue_, _medium_, _grande_), 68, 144, 216 (1) _Rota Virgili_, 192 (2) high style, 270, 292 b. elegance (with review of correctness), 82, 216 c. aptness (1) conformity to type, 35, 159, 187 (2) in _dictamen_, especially important for _salutatio_, 220, 221 d. elaboration (_ornatus_, _dignitas_), 79, 82, 216, 219 (1) descriptive dilation (through _poetria_), 85, 174, 180, 186, 294 (2) figures (in _poetria_ and _dictamen_) from _Rhetorica ad Herennium_ (a) _figuræ verborum_ 1. _repetitio_, initial repetition