declamator

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

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.

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