elocution Copy link • elocution: prōnuntiātio: v. delivery. (Elocutio and locutio refer to the language rather than the manner of speaking: cf. Cic. Inv. 1, 7, 9: "elocutio est idoneorum verborum et sententiarum ad inventionem accommodatio;" and Brut. 74, init.). Phr.: an e.-master, rhētor, declamandi magister, Cic.: v. declamation.