dēclāmitō

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dēclāmĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v., freq. n. and a. [declamo], to practise rhetorical delivery or declamation, to declaim (good prose; most frequent in Cic.).

In a good sense.

Absol.:

commentabar declamitans (sic enim nunc loquuntur), saepe cum M. Pisone et cum Q. Pompeio aut cum aliquo cotidie,

Cic. Brut. 90, 310; so id. de Or. 1, 59, 251; id. Fam. 16, 21, 5; Quint. 12, 11, 15.—

With acc.:

causas,

to plead for the sake of practise, Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 7.—

In a bad sense, to talk violently, to bluster:

de aliquo,

Cic. Phil. 5, 7, 19; cf. id. ib. 2, 17.

dē-clāmo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. — Rhetor. t. t., to exercise one's self in rhetorical delivery, to practise speaking, to declaim. For syn. cf.: dictito, concionor, pronuntio, palam dico, praedico, recito, declamito. (Class., most freq. in Cic. and Quint.)

In a good sense.

Neutr.:

ad fluctum aiunt declamare solitum Demosthenem, ut fremitum assuesceret voce vincere,

Cic. Fin. 5, 2, 5; id. fragm. ap. Quint. 6, 3, 73: dum tu declamas Romae, * Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 2:

declamare doces?

Juv. 7, 150:

haec est sedes orationis, hic laus omnis declamantium,

Quint. 9, 4, 62 (al. declamat) et saep.— Pass. impers.:

in eo, quomodo declametur, positum est etiam, quomodo agatur,

Quint. 9, 2, 81.—

Act. (rare; not in Cic.; cf., on the contrary, declamito, no. I. b):

suasorias,

Quint. 3, 8, 61.—

Poet., in gen., to speak oratorically, to declaim:

quis nisi mentis inops tenerae declamet amicae?

Ov. A. A. 1, 465.—

In a bad sense, to speak as an orator with violence, to declaim, to bluster, bawl:

ille insanus, qui pro isto vehementissime contra me declamasset,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 66 fin.;

so in quemvis,

id. Fam. 3, 11, 2:

aliquid ex alia oratione declamare,

id. Rosc. Am. 29 fin.