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Title: Notes On Verbal Humour in the Historia Augusta
Author(s): REEKMANS, T.
Journal: Ancient Society
Volume: 28    Date: 1997   
Pages: 175-207
DOI: 10.2143/AS.28.0.630075

Abstract :
The main division in the field of wit is that into verbal and non-verbal humour: «things designed to raise a laugh may be said or done» (Quintilian, Institutio oratoria VI 3.25). The present paper will deal only with verbal humour, not with practical jokes, attributed by the author of the H.A. to Roman rulers and their subjects.

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