Quasi labor intus : ambiguity in Latin literature : papers in honor of Reginald Thomas Foster, OCD /

Includes bibliographical references.Introduction -- The spatial metaphorics of ambiguity in Roman culture -- A cute illness in Epidaurus: eight sick jokes in Plautus' Gorgylio (Curculio) -- Indirect and off-record speech in Roman comedy: the case of the conditional request -- Teleology and tyrannicide in Cicero's Brutus 331 -- Praeteritio and cooperative ambiguity -- Dido's tears: a brief history of a sorrowful ambiguity -- Vivas Hinc Ducere Voces: hearing Horace's Satires in his Ars Poetica -- Coniecturalem Artem Esse Medicinam: ambiguity and uncertainty in disease diagnosis and treatment in Celsus' De Medicina -- Purveying rhetoric: Quintilian Insti(tu)tor -- The ethics of ambiguity in Quintilian -- Peter Damian and the language of friendship: the Polysemy of Caritas -- The ever-ending story: the role of ambiguity in supplements to the Aeneid -- Ambiguity in Erasmus' Echo