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.
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.