rhētŏrĭcus — Lewis & Short
rhētŏrĭcus, a, um, adj., = r(htoriko/s,
I of or belonging to a rhetorician, rhetorical.
I Adj.:
nostro more aliquando, non rhetorico loquamur,Cic. de Or. 1, 29, 133:
ars,i. e. a treatise on rhetoric, id. Fin. 4, 3, 7:
rhetorici doctores,i. e. teachers of rhetoric, Cic. de Or. 1, 19, 86:
syllogismus,Quint. 5, 10, 3; 9, 4, 57:
libri,books on rhetoric, Cic. de Or. 2, 3, 10. — Hence,
II Substt.
A rhētŏrĭca, ae, or rhētŏrĭcē, ēs, f. (the first form in Cic., the latter in Quint.), the art of oratory, rhetoric:
dicam, si potero, rhetorice, sed hac rhetoricā philosophorum, non nostrā illa forensi,Cic. Fin. 2, 6, 17:
rhetorice est bene dicendi scientia,Quint. 5, 10, 54:
et rhetorice, cui nomen vis eloquentiae dedit,id. 2, 1, 5:
jus rhetorices, id. prooem. § 23: rhetoricen exercere,id. 2, 1, 3; 2, 15, 24:
de rhetorice,id. 2, 15, 10. —
B rhētŏrĭci, ōrum, m.
1 Teachers of oratory, = rhetores, ipsi magistri, qui rhetorici vocantur, Cic. de Or. 1, 12, 52.—
2 Books on rhetoric:
nisi rhetoricos suos (the erroneouslynamed books de Inventione) ipse adulescenti sibi elapsos diceret (Cicero),Quint. 3, 1, 20; so,
in rhetoricis,id. 2, 15, 6; also in sing.:
sicut ex Ciceronis rhetorico primo manifestum est,id. 3, 5, 14; 3, 6, 58.—
C Neutr. plur.: rhētŏrĭca, ōrum, rhetoric:
rhetorica mihi vestra sunt nota,Cic. Fat. 2, 4.— Adv.: rhētŏrĭcē, in an oratorical or rhetorical manner, oratorically, rhetorically:
rhetorice igitur nos mavis quam dialectice disputare?Cic. Fin. 2, 6, 17:
ejus mortem rhetorice et tragice ornare,id. Brut. 11, 43:
quam rhetorice!id. Tusc. 3, 26, 63.