DECLAMATION Copy link • DECLAMATIONStyle of delivery, pronunciatio (according to the rules of art; Cic., Invent., 1, 7, uses circumlocution; ex rerum et verborum dignitate vocis et corporis moderatio, Auct., ad Her., 1, 2, extr., vocis, vultus, gestus moderatio cum venustate): actio (Cic., De Or., 2, 17, extr.): pronunciandi nitio (general term for delivery, Quint., 10, 1, 17): pronunciatio vocis mutationibus resultans (with reference to affected changes of tone, Quint., 11, 8, 183). An oration composed for practice on a given subject, declamatio. in ostentationem comparata declamatio (after Quint., 2, 9, 10).