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Nor did the medieval theorists mention the addressMittelalterAnrede im MA to the reader as a special figure of speech, for they did nothing but imitate or adapt their precursors in Antiquity to their needs and to their horizon. They do describe the apostrophe; one of the most important, Geoffroi de VinsaufGeoffroi de Vinsauf, devoted some two hundred verses to such a description.15 He considers the apostropheApostrophe as a means of amplification and uses it for moral purposes: his examples are meant to serve as an admonition against pride and insolence, as an encouragement in adversity, as a caution against the instability of fortune, etc. They are highly, indeed pedantically, rhetorical; the purpose of ‘amplification’ is unpleasantly evident throughout. But they are put in the second person, and thus directly addressed to the persons or groups or countries which are supposed to invite criticism or admonition (Geoffroi uses the word castigare). In this respect they closely resemble ‘addresses to the reader’.