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quo praetermisso: ablative absolute. exordium: technical term for a formal rhetorical beginning. The following solemn poem opens the second, positive half of the Consolatio , now that the negative argument of the first half is complete. modulata est: < modulor , "perform musically"; here, "sing."

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