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panegyric. A speech or poem praising an individual or a group of people, the word from the Greek meaning “pertaining to public assembly.” Marc Antony’s “Friends, Romans, country- men . . .” speech (44 b.c.) at Caesar’s funeral (in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar) is so successful a panegyric that it stirs the Ro- mans to fury against the conspirators, who were driven from the city. |