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BATHOS (Gr. 3hOos)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 514 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BATHOS (Gr. 3hOos)  , properly
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depth, the bottom or lowest
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part of anything . The current usage for an anticlimax, a descent " from the sublime to the ridiculous," from the elevated to the
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commonplace in literature or speech, is due to Pope's satire on Bathos (Miscellanies, 1727-1728), "the
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art of sinking in
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poetry." The title was a- travesty of Longinus's essay, On the Sublime, Ilepi' 6 'uc .

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