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Tirade is the name of the Roman goddess of gentle persuasion. The term tirade is called today a rant, a large flow of speech, which is to make the contact a subject enjoyable.

History and etymology

The namesake tirade or Suadela is the Roman personification of persuasion. Among the Greeks it was called Peitho. The word comes from the Latin verb suadeo ' persuade, convince ' ( so also πείθω as a verb ).

According to the Hellenistic poet Hermesianax Peitho is a grace. After Aristophanes it comes instead of Euphrosyne it. Pausanias brings the Charites ( Graces = ) with the Aphrodite in conjunction.

When one speaks of the "great tirade " of a speaker, it means usually that he has just no sting (unlike Pericles ) left with a verbal Imponiergespräch in mind.