harangue (subs.) Copy link • harangue (subs.): contio (concio), ōnis, f. (an address delivered to a popular assembly, to soldiers): he delivered an h. before the soldiers, c. apud milites habuit, Caes. B. C. 3, 73: Cic.: riotous h.s, turbulentae c., Cic. See also speech. To deliver an h., contionari; foll. by apud, Caes. B. C. 1, 7; by ad, Suet. Aug. 84, extr.