rhētor, ŏris, m., = ῥήτωρ,
I a teacher of oratory or rhetoric , a rhetorician : eos, qui rhetores nominarentur et qui dicendi praecepta traderent, nihil plane tenere, Cic. de Or. 1, 18, 84; cf. Quint. 2, 2, 1: in rhetorum scholis, id. 10, 5, 14; 12, 2, 23: rhetorum artes, Cic. Fin. 3, 1: rhetorum epilogus, id. Tusc. 1, 47, 112; 2, 3, 9: (pueri) priusquam tradantur rhetori, Quint. 1, 10, 1; Mart. 2, 64, 1; Tac. Dial. 30 and 35; Macr. S. 5, 2, 1.— *
II After the Greek manner, an orator; but with contempt, a rhetorician , speechifier , etc.: stultitia rhetoris Attica, Nep. Epam. 6, 3; cf. with § 1.