ēlŏquĭum, ii, n. [eloquor].
I In Aug. poets, and their imitators among prose writers, for eloquentia, eloquence , * Hor. A. P. 217; * Verg. A. 11, 383; Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 46; id. M. 13, 63; 322 al.; Vell. 2, 68, 1; Plin. 11, 17, 18, § 55.—
II In late Lat., declaration , communication in gen., Diom. p. 413 P.; Mamert. Pan. Maxim. 9: eloquia pulchritudinis, fine words , Vulg. Gen. 49, 21; id. Prov. 4, 20 al.