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- noun Plural form of
acroama .
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Examples
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And even these are not allowed to pall upon the mental palate, being mingled with anecdotes and short tales, such as the Hermits (iii. 125), with biographical or literary episodes, acroamata, table-talk and analects where humorous Rabelaisian anecdote finds a place; in fact the fabliau or novella.
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Here too they are mixed up with anecdotes and acroamata after the fashion of The
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The Histories and historical anecdotes, analects, and acroamata, in which the names, when not used achronistically by the editor or copier, give unerring data for the earliest date à quo and which, by the mode of treatment, suggest the latest.
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Hermits (iii. 125), with biographical or literary episodes, acroamata, table-talk and analects where humorous Rabelaisian anecdote finds a place; in fact the fabliau or novella.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The Histories and historical anecdotes, analects, and acroamata, in which the names, when not used achronistically by the editor or copier, give unerring data for the earliest date à quo and which, by the mode of treatment, suggest the latest.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Here too they are mixed up with anecdotes and acroamata after the fashion of The Nights, suggesting great antiquity for this style of composition.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Suetonius says of Augustus (c. 74) that at feasts he introduced _acroamata et histriones_.
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844
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