Editing Damnatio memoriae (section)

== Etymology ==
Although the term {{lang|la|damnatio memoriae}} is [[Latin]], the phrase was not used by the ancient Romans, and first appeared in a [[thesis]] written in [[Germany]] in 1689 by Christoph Schreiter and Johann Heinrich Gerlach.<ref name="Omissi2018">{{Cite book |last=Omissi |first=Adrastos |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CWliDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA36 |title=Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire: Civil War, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy |date=28 June 2018 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-255827-5 |page=36}}</ref> The thesis was titled ''Dissertationem juridicam de damnatione memoriae, praescitu superiorum, in florentissima Philurea'' (lit. "A Legal Dissertation on the Damnation of Memory, Foreknown by Superiors, in the Most Flourishing Philurea").<ref name="Omissi2018" />''