declamation Copy link Outline I. The practice of declaimingII. A speech for declaiming1. dēclāmātio2. schŏlastĭcaIII. Turgid speech • declamation: I. The practice of declaiming: dēclāmātio: Cic. II. A speech for declaiming: 1. dēclāmātio: Sen.: Juv. (who uses it for a subject of declamation, 10, 167). 2. schŏlastĭca: Sen. III. Turgid speech: ampullae: Hor. A. P. 97.
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).