_De planctu naturæ_ (Alain de Lille), 172, 284 De Quincey, T., 19, 44-47, 49 _De reductione artium ad theologiam_ (St. Bonaventure), 176-178 _De rhetoricæ cognatione_, 152 _De schematibus et tropis sacræ scripturæ_ (Bede), 130 _descriptio_, 305 description, 17-19, 35, 41, 79-81, 92, 100, 104, 105, 149, 161, 174, 186, 259, 260, 264, 265, 271, 277, 278, 281-284, 287, 289, 294-296, 301 _De scripturis et scriptoribus sacris_ (Hugh of St. Victor), 241 Desilve, J., 130, 131 _De vulgari eloquentia_ (Dante), 270 _diacrisis_, 161 _dialectica_, 88-93, 95-98, 129, 141, 142, 151-182, 190, 238, 248, 249 dialogue, 132, 140, 245, 246, 262, 266, 282, 286, 287, 301 Dick, A., 92 Dickinson, J., 156 _dictamen_, 21, 79, 143-145, 152, 181, 191-195, 206-227, 293 _dictator_, 213, 217, 219 _dictio_, 175 _Dies iræ_, 201 _dignitas_, 216, 219; see _ornatus_ dilation, 17-20, 46, 77, 85, 86, 101, 161, 174, 180, 182, 186, 188, 189, 193, 195, 237, 271, 291, 294-296 dimeter, 108, 113, 116, 117 _diminutio_, 305 Dio Chrysostom, 13, 17 Diomedes, 92, 131, 132, 193 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 6 diplomatic, 213, 214 _disciplina_, 79, 85, 91, 155, 165, 166 _disjunctio_, 304 _dispositio_, 7, 20, 21, 94, 97, 171, 179, 180, 187, 192, 193, 196, 215, 247-249 _disserere_, 97, 155-157 _dissolutio_, 305 _distinctio_, 218 _Distinctiones_ (Pierre de Limoges), 234 _distributio_, 305 _Divina Commedia_, 205, 242, 269-280 _divisio_, 305 _docere_ (_delectare_, _movere_), 64-68, 72, 73 _Doctrinale_ (Alexandre de Villedieu), 184-186, 190, 198 Dominican preaching, 233, 236-238, 249 Donatus, 87, 97, 130, 151, 158 Douais, C., 228, 237 drama, 132, 176, 289 _dramaticon_, 131, 132 Dreves, G. M., 99, 116, 126, 183 Dryden, 297 _dubitatio_, 42, 305 Du Méril, E., 200 E _Ecce iam noctis tenuatur umbra_, 121, 136 _ecclesiasticus_, _cursus_; see _tardus_ _ecphrasis_, 17-20, 35, 44, 104, 174, 188, 274, 294, 305 _Edda_, 145, 259 _Edric the wild_ (Walter Map), 262 _effictio_, 305 Ekkehard I of St. Gall, 145 elaboration, 17, 40-50, 142, 161, 259, 292 _electio_, 192 elegance, 19, 65, 82, 161, 213, 215-217 elegiacs, 105, 106, 140, 141, 189, 193 elementary exercises, 10, 23-38, 97, 129 _Eliduc_ (Marie), 263 Elinand, 253 _elocutio_, 39, 57, 94, 97, 142, 191, 215, 216 _eloquentia_, 128, 169 Elss, H., 106 _En cæli rutilant lumine splendido_, 138 encomium, 5, 21, 22, 30, 31, 44, 71, 78, 105, 187, 194, 236 Ennodius, 84 enthymeme, 152, 237 epic, 145-149, 258-260 epigram, 42, 48, 76, 81 _Erec_ (Chrétien), 264, 266 Ermini, F., 104, 126, 129, 141, 145, 214 _Eruditio didascalica_ (Hugh of St. Victor), 153-155 Eskredge, J. B., 55 _ethopœia_ (_ethica dictio_), 34, 83, 97 Étienne de Bourbon, 235 Étienne de Tournay, 156, 208 _Etymologiæ_; see Isidore