Memmius seems to surpass even Mr Trump in anger and truculence. Concitatio invidiae, or ‘arousal of indignation’, was the characteristic rhetorical mode of the Roman populist ‘demagogue’, usually a Tribune of the People seeking to stir Roman voters into action when he thought their leaders in the Senate were up to no good. https://blog.oup.com/2016/11/make-demagogues-great-again/ by Robert Morstein-Marx, Oxford University Press. 11/6/2016. Employing anger and indignation to persuade common people to action and outrage.
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