Chapter 1: The Polysemy of Expressions of Meaning

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“λεξιθηρεῖν”: “to hunt after words”. Expressions of meaning have been applied to different kinds of things in a number of languages spanning the western literary tradition. Before moving on to a more detailed study of the terminology, it will perhaps be helpful to give some concrete examples of the phenomenon. I would like to introduce the topic of the polysemy of the classical vocabulary of meaning by focusing on the Latin expression “sibi uelle” and on how Roman authors exploited its ambigu...

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