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declamito

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Where it lives

Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
Philippicae 2 · 0.38/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

dēclāmĭto — Lewis & Short

dēclāmĭto, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v., freq. n. and a. [declamo], to practise rhetorical delivery or declamation, to declaim (good prose; most frequent in Cic.).

I In a good sense.

(a) Absol.: commentabar declamitans (sic enim nunc loquuntur), saepe cum M. Pisone et cum Q. Pompeio aut cum aliquo cotidie, Cic. Brut. 90, 310; so id. de Or. 1, 59, 251; id. Fam. 16, 21, 5; Quint. 12, 11, 15.—*

(b) With acc.: causas, to plead for the sake of practise, Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 7.—

II In a bad sense, to talk violently, to bluster: de aliquo, Cic. Phil. 5, 7, 19; cf. id. ib. 2, 17.

In the wild

declamitant Cicero, De Oratore 1.251
declamitans Cicero, Brutus 310
declamitavit Cicero, Philippicae 5.19
declamitabam Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.7.p2
declamitabat Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.pr.4
declamitas Cicero, Philippicae 2.42.p2

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