_comma_ (_cæsum_, _incisum_), 61, 218 _commoratio_, 305 communal poetic, 108, 123, 125, 139, 146, 204, 259, 273, 279 _commutatio_ (_chiasmus_), 47, 304 _compar_, 304, and see balance complaint, 282, 286 _complexio_, 304 _compositio_ (sentence rhythm), 6, 20, 44, 48, 49, 54, 61-64, 68-70, 83, 84, 144, 145, 163, 215-227, 250-254 _conclusio_, 215, 220, 222, 305 concrete, 19, 42, 101, 105, 149, 152, 171, 203, 245, 259, 270, 282, 284, 286-288, 301 _Conditor supernus orbis_, 134 _conduplicatio_, 304 _Confessio amantis_ (Gower), 299, 300 _conflictus_ (_débat_), 140, 284 _conformatio_, 305 _conjunctio_, 304 Conrad, _Summa de arte prosandi_, 212, 214, 219, 220 _Consors paterni luminis_, 113 _constans_, _distinctio_ (_membrum_), 218 _contentio_, 304, 305 _continuatio_, 304 _contrarium_, 304 _Contra Symmachum_ (Prudentius), 105, 137 _controversia_, 79, 82, 83, 84, 215 conventions of composition, 7, 10, 15, 21-38, 48, 73, 78, 180, 187, 196, 236, 261, 267, 270, 280-282, 284, 291, 296 _conversio_, 304 _Corde natus_, 104, 119, 124, 134, 201 Cornificians, 158 Cornificius, 90 _correctio_, 304 correctness, 64, 65, 86, 160, 213, 215, 216, 221 cosmogony, poetic, 124, 173, 204, 241, 242, 244, 272, 273, 274 couplet, 199, 282, 297 courtly love, 267, 281, 282, 286 Crane, T. F., 235 Croll, M. W., 206, 223, 224, 225 Cruel, R., 228, 233, 234, 247 _cursus_, 216-218, 223-227 Cynewulf, 273, 277 Cyprian, St., 56, 67, 71 D dactylic effects in accentual verse, 115, 117, 118, 133, 137-139, 199, 283 —in prose, 226, 250, 251 Dalton, O. M., 78 Dante, 196, 205, 224, 242, 261, 269-280, 285 Dares, 190 _De arte metrica_ (Bede), 110, 111, 120, 131, 151 _débat_ (_conflictus_), 140, 284 _Decameron_, 263, 299 _declamatio_, 10-13, 54, 77, 79, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 94, 105, 129, 142, 188, 215 _De clericorum institutione_ (Rabanus), 142, 143 _declinatio_, 162, 163 _De consolatione philosophiæ_, 101-103, and see Boethius _De contemptu mundi_ (Bernard of Morlaix), 198-200 decoration, 7, 18, 39, 40, 41, 100, 186, 195, 203, 271 _De doctrina christiana_ (St. Augustine), 51-73, 130, 143 _De eruditione prædicatorum_ (Humbert de Romans), 238 _De faciebus mundi_ (Guillaume d’Auvergne), 236 _definitio_, 304 _Dei gratia_, 220 _De incarnatione Christi_ (Alain de Lille), 241 _De inventione_ (Cicero), 89, 142, 143, 152, 153, 175, 179, 181, 182, 214 _delectare_ (_docere_, _movere_), 64-68, 72, 73 Delisle, L., 181 delivery, 16, 57, 64, 97, 237 _demonstratio_ (logic), 154, 157, 164, 165 —(description), 180, 189, 305 _denominatio_, 305 _De nugis curialium_; see Map _De nuptiis Philologiæ et Mercurii_; see Martianus Capella _dependens_ (_suspensiva_), _distinctio_ (_cæsum_, _incisum_, _comma_), 218, 219