trugrede means specifically, Ajax's monologue from lines 646–692 of Sophocles' play Ajax. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Trugrede, from Trug (“deception”) + Rede (“speech”).
name
- Specifically, Ajax's monologue from lines 646–692 of Sophocles' play Ajax“Für das Verstehen des Dramas ist zweifellos seine umstrittenste Partie wesentlich, die berühmte Rede, die das ganze zweite Epeisodion ausmacht und die unter dem Namen "Trugrede" bekannt ist (646–92).”
noun
- Oratory designed to mislead its audience; a speech of deception“[…] the majority of scholars seem to agree that the speech [Ajax's speech in lines 646–692 of Sophocles' Ajax] really is a Trugrede, a speech of deception. Ajax has no intention of yielding but must deceive his friends in order to complete his heroic death.”