Leading patrician and plebeian families came to be informally called nobiles (‘notables’), or collectively the nobilitas, their ancestry adorned by consuls, dictators and triumphators.

But she is not right to claim this is because rhetoric must necessarily be in the Nietzschean sense that all language is founded in tropology.³⁷ Since when has tropology been in conflict with theology? Tropology and rhetoric thrive in the works of both Calvin and Calvino, and tropology is the very lifeblood of The Pilgrim's Progress.

There are shrubs that tolerate the saltspray along the seacoast, and others better suited for higher, cooler elevations.

One of the President's aides gave us a ten-minute backgrounder on the dairy industry before the meeting.