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
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..."
