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Epitasis   Listen
noun
Epitasis  n.  
1.
That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; opposed to protasis.
2.
(Med.) The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.





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"Epitasis" Quotes from Famous Books



... Account of the Nature and Perfection of 'em. He well understood the Rules of the Stage, or rather those of Nature; was perfectly Regular, wonderful exact and careful in ordering each Protasis or Entrance, Epitasis or working up, Catastasis or heighth, and Catastrophe or unravelling the Plot; which last he was famous for making it spring necessarily from the Incidents, and neatly and dextrously untying the ...
— Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) • Lawrence Echard


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