24-10-2017, 03:08 PM
A farewell or farewell speech is a speech by an individual who leaves a position or place. They are often used by public figures such as politicians as for the previous career, or as statements by people related to the reasons for their departure. The term is often used as a euphemism for "retirement speech," although it is broader in the sense that it may include a geographical or even biological conclusion. In the classics, a term for a dignified and poetic farewell speech is apobaterion opposing the epibaterion, the corresponding discourse made upon arrival.
