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3) In Rhetorica ad Herennium the following partes orationis are discussed: exordium or introduction, narratio or statement of facts, divisio or division, confirmatio or proof, confutatio or refutation, and conclusio or conclusion (1.
In a complete model there would be invocatio, intitulatio, inscriptio and salutatio in the protocol; prologus or exordium, notificatio or promulgatio, narratio, dispositio, sanctio or minatio and valoratio or corroboratio in the text section; and subscriptio, datatio and apprecatio in the "eschatocof" (11).
1: A, a, a, Domine, quia puer ego sum, et ecce nescio loqui" ("The theme of the exordium may refer to the person of the preacher, for instance when the preacher is a religious of the Order of Friars Preachers or Friars Minor visiting a parish, where both he and his Order are unknown.
3-2- Study acting contrary to the provisions of the Official exordium in matters of marriage and divorce:
inscriptio, exordium, expositio Normas para redactar documentos oficiales.
16) Cicero, De Inventione, exordium (proemium), captatio benevolentiae.
The first sura of the Koran, the Exordium, is very short.
The parts of speech are: exordium, narratio, partitio, confirmatio, reprehensio si peroratio.
Death's speech in chapter 18 starts with a proverbial exordium ("Wer von Sachen nicht enweiss, der kan von Sachen nit gesagen," 18.
Accordingly, prayer as oratio has "a likeness to worldly rhetorical speech and being in a likeness and proportion to its parts--namely, the exordium, the narration, the petition, the confirmation, the refutation, and lastly the conclusion" (33).