Insults Even had a Pattern: Check out Vituperation!

In teaching rhetoric, I often cover some of the progymnasmata, the old methods for writing instruction from Greek and then Latin times.

Check out the “official” way that they manage insults: vituperation.

What might it suggest about its designers from 2,500 years back?

What might is say about us that we may well be getting back toward these insults to people’s blood/looks/ancestors in what has become a stereotypical.  So it’s not particular to 2020 America and the register of our political debate!