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Noun
  1. A fuller treatment (in a separate section) of a particular part of the text of a book, especially a classic.
  2. A narrative digression, especially to discuss a particular issue.
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This reversal is the subject of Herodotus' detailed account in the long excursus he consecrates in Book 3 to the theme of the hostility between Corinth and her colony Corcyra.
Let us not at this moment go into an excursus to inquire who he was and who he was not.
This volume also includes Moloney's excursus on theories of Johannine community history.
Here the chronicler inserts an excursus on the wickedness of reviling kings and murmuring against them.
Is this book, written hectically and in the first person as though spoken by the poet himself, an autobiographical excursus or not?
The most charming excursus can be found when Phaedrus and Socrates return to the chirping cicadas that surround them.

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