exclamation Copy link Outline 1. vox, vōcis, f. (any saying or cry)2. exclāmātio3. clāmor4. conclāmātio (of numbers together) • exclamation: 1. vox, vōcis, f. (any saying or cry): an e. (or expression) of grief, doloris v., Cic. Plan. 14, 34: v. cry (subs.). 2. exclāmātio: an e. of surprise, complaint, admirationis, conquestionis ex., Cic. Or. 39, 135. (But from Auct. Her. 4, 15, 22, it appears that the word has a wider signification than the Eng., including any kind of appeal.) 3. clāmor: v. shout, cry (subs.). 4. conclāmātio (of numbers together): Tac.: Sen. (Caes. has it = acclamations, B. C. 2, 26).
EXCLAMATION Copy link • EXCLAMATIONexclamatio (as a rhetorical figure = ἐπιφώνημα, Cic., De Or., 3, 54, 207; but also, PROP., acutae vocis exclamationes, Auct. ad Her., 3, 12, 21): acclamatio (as rhetorical figure, Quint., 8, 5, 11): vox (e.g., of pain, qualis dolore exprimitur): conclamatio (of several, not Ciceronian; exclamations, by sing., Caes., totius exercitus; by plur., Tac., lacrimae et conclamationes): vociferatio (loud crying, Cic.). [Vid. CRY, s., SHOUT, s.] Not a single exclamation was heard from them, that, etc, nulla ab iis vox, quae - sit, etc.: to force, wring, etc., an exclamation from anybody, vocem exprimere: to interlard a speech with theatrical exclamations, dulces exclamationes theatri causa producere (Quint. 11, 3, 179). A note of exclamation, signum exclamationis (grammatical technical term).