ELOQUENCE Copy link • ELOQUENCEReadiness in speaking, facultas dicendi: facundia (Sall., Varr., , not Cic., Caes., or, probably, Liv.): eloquentia [SYN. in ELOQUENT]: facultas eloquendi (readiness in expressing one’s self): vis dicendi or orandi. To speak with great eloquence, eloquentissime dioere (de re). To possess remarkable eloquence, imprimis dicendo valere; dicendi facultate florere; dicendi gloria praestare; ornate copioseque dicere. As an art, ars dicendi: ars oratoria or rhetorica, or rhetorica only (general term): dicendi ratio (as theory). Forensic eloquence, genus dicendi judiciis aptum; eloquentia forensis. To devote one’s self to the study of eloquence, ad dicendum se conferre.