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demonstrativus

demonstrativus · adj

pointing out, designating

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Where it lives

De Inventione 5 · 1.51/10k
Institutio Oratoria 9 · 0.52/10k

What it meant

dēmonstrātīvus — Lewis & Short

dēmonstrātīvus, a, um, adj.demonstro,

I pointing out, designating.

I In gen. (very rarely): digitus, the indexfinger, forefinger, Cael. Aur. Tard. 5, 1, 21.—

II In rhetor., demonstrative, = e)gkwmiastiko/n: genus (orationis), a branch of rhetoric employed in praising or censuring, i. e. laudatory or vituperative (usuually the former), Cic. Inv. 1, 5, 7; Quint. 3, 4, 14; 2, 10, 11: causa, Cic. Inv. 2, 4: materia, Quint. 3, 8, 53; 11, 1, 48: pars orationis, id. 2, 21, 23; cf. 7, 4, 2.—

B Subst.: dēmonstrātīva, ae, f., demonstrative kind of oratory, Quint. 3, 8, 63 sq.; 3, 8, 8.—* Adv.: dēmonstrātīvē, demonstratively, Macr. Somn. Scip. 2, 16.

In the wild

demonstrativum Cicero, De Inventione 1.7
demonstrativa Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.8.64
demonstrativum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.4.12
demonstrativa Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.6.81
demonstrativo Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 5.10.43
demonstrativo Cicero, De Inventione 2.156.p1

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