Editing Pamphlet (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''pamphlet'' for a small work (''opuscule'') issued by itself without covers came into [[Middle English]] {{circa|1387}} as {{lang|enm|pamphilet}} or {{lang|enm|panflet}}, generalized from a twelfth-century [[Elegiac comedy|amatory comic poem]] with a satiric flavor, ''[[Pamphilus de amore|Pamphilus, seu de Amore]]'' ('Pamphilus: or, Concerning Love'), written in [[Latin]].<ref>[[s.v.]] {{cite OED|pamphlet}}</ref><ref name=OEtDpamphlet>{{OEtymD|pamphlet}}</ref> Pamphilus's name is derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] name {{lang|grc|Πάμφιλος}}, meaning "beloved of all".<ref>{{LSJ|pa/mfilos|πάμφιλος|ref}}.</ref> The poem was popular and widely copied and circulated on its own, forming a slim [[codex]].