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dēclāmātĭo, ōnis, f. [declamo].

  1. I. Exercise in oratorical delivery, exercise or practice in speaking, declamation (class.; most freq. in Quint.): cum sit declamatio forensium actionum meditatio, etc., Quint. 4, 2, 29; cf. id. 2, 10, 4; 12 et saep.: in quotidiana declamatione utilis, etc., Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 6; cf. id. Tusc. 1, 4, 7; 2, 11, 26.
    1. B. Meton. (abstr. pro concreto), a theme, subject for declamation, called also causa (v. h. v.), Quint. 1, 2, 13; 10, 2, 12; 10, 5, 14; cf. Sen. Contr. 1 praef.
      Poet. also of a person who serves as a theme, Juv. 10, 167.
  2. II. In a bad sense, loud, eager talking, bawling (so several times in Cic.): desinamus aliquando vulgari et pervagata declamatione contendere, Cic. Planc. 19, 47: sequitur ut materiae abhorrenti a veritate, declamatio adhibeatur, Tac. Dial. 35: non placet mihi inquisitio candidati, non declamatio potius quam persalutatio, Cic. Mur. 21, 44.

dēclāmātĭuncŭla, ae, f. dim. [declamatio], a little exercise in speaking, a short declamation (very rare), Gell. 6, 8, 4; Sid. Ep. 1, 4.

dēclāmātor, ōris, m. [declamo], one who practises set speaking, a rhetorician, declaimer (diff. from orator, a practical speaker, Quint. 10, 2, 21): non enim declamatorem aliquem de ludo aut rabulam de foro, sed doctissimum et perfectissimum quaerimus, Cic. Or. 15, 47; cf. id. Planc. 34, 83; Quint. 3, 8, 44; 51; 5, 13, 42; Juv. 16, 23 et saep.

dēclāmātōrĭus, a, um, adj. [declamator], of or belonging to the exercise of speaking, declamatory, rhetorical (good prose): opus, Cic. de Or. 1, 16 fin.: illo genere duci et delectari, id. Q. Fr. 3, 3 fin.; ef.: genus dicendi, Quint. 2, 10, 9: consuetudo, id. 5, 13, 46: licentia, id. 8, 3, 76: res, id. 4, 2, 128: studium, Tac. Or. 14.
Hence, adv.: dēclāmātōriē, in a rhetorical manner (late Lat.), Hieron. al.