declamandum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →declamo, declamare, declamavi, declamatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Literature
declaim, make speeches (usu. as an oratorical exercise); bluster/bawl (L+S);
acc. sg. fut. pass. part.acc. sg. fut. pass. part.nom. sg. fut. pass. part.voc. sg. fut. pass. part.
Examples
Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quoddam carmen adsignat. Est etiam non inerudite ad declamandum ficta materia, in qua ponitur tibicen, qui sacrificanti Phrygium..."Liber II
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...atque etiam magna ex parte adulescentuli obscuri ad declamandum huc transierunt, tam irreverenter et temere, ut mihi Atilius..."