declames
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. pres. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- G
De rhetoribus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)
"...Porcius Latro * M. Porcius Latro, Latinus declamator, taedio duplicis quartanae semet ipsum interfecit (a. 750. 751) Q. Curtius..." - M
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..."