ELOCUTION Copy link • ELOCUTIONelocutio (oratorical expression; the apt selection of words, arrangement of sentences, etc., φράσις, Cic. and Quint.: locutio (speaking; mode of speaking, pronunciation, locutio emendata et Latina): vox: oratio: lingua: lingua or sermonis usus (speech, in which sense Milton uses “elocution”): splendida quaedam ratio dicendi: softness of elocution, lenitas vocis (Cic.): by the mere beauty of his elocution, ipso oris pressu et sono (Cic., 3 De Or., 11, 43): not so much by correctness as by the sweetness of his elocution, non tam bene, quam suaviter loquendo (ib.). Eloquence, Vid.