declamator
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);
sg. fut. pass. imp. 2ndsg. fut. pass. imp. 3rd - Entry →declamator, declamatoris:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Literature
one who composes/delivers speeches as oratorical exercise; rhetorical declaimer;
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
De rhetoribus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)
"...Porcius Latro * M. Porcius Latro, Latinus declamator, taedio duplicis quartanae semet ipsum interfecit (a. 750. 751) Q. Curtius..."Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...ridicula, ut, si iam cedendum est, impleat se declamator aliquando, dum sciat, ut quadrupedes, cum uiridi pabulo distentae..."
