Eloquentia, vnde longè absum. Cic. Puer hic vnde est? Te. From whose house came this child? Est vnde hæc fiãt. Te. I haue wherwith to do these things.Si habuerit vnde tibi soluat.Cic.If he shall haue wherwith to pay you. Vnde hasce ædes emeram.Plaut.Of whom I bought, &c.Is vnde te audisse dicis.Cic.He, of whom you say you heard it. Vide quod scriptum vnde villicus est.Plaut.See what is written on that side, whereon the bailiffes name is.Vnde tantum virium cæco? Quin.Whereto had a blinde man so much strength. Vnde gentium, Idem quod Vnde. Plautus. Nam obsecro vnde hæc gentium? For I pray you from whence commeth this woman? Vnde id scis? . audiui, & credo. Terent.How, or whereby knowest thou that?Vnde iste amor tam improuisus, ac tam repentinus.Cicer. Vnde domo? Virg.Of what citie?
Eloquor, pen. cor. elóqueris, éloqui. Cic.To speake: to speake out: to vtter eloquently and aptly.Eloquere vno verbo.Plaut.Tell me at a worde.Perge eloqui. Ter. Tell foorth your tale.Quòd veni eloquar.Terent.I will speake that I came for.Cumhero pauca eloquar.Plaut.I will speake a word or two with, &c.Ipse eloquar nomen meum.Plaut.I will tell my name my selfe. Expedire verbo. & eloqui. Teren. Ille vnum elocutus. Cæs. After hee had spoken this one thing.Monstrum eloqui. Seneca. To vtter or tell a monstrous or strange thing.Verba simillima veris eloquor.Ouid. Eloqui, quod ad Oratores spectat, est, vt ait Cicero, apté, ornatè, & eleganter dicere.
ē-lŏquor, ēlŏcūtus (or ēloquūtus), 3, v. dep. a., to speak out, speak plainly, to utter; to pronounce, declare, state, express: eloqui hoc est, omnia quae mente conceperis promere atque ad audientes perferre, Quint. 8 prooem. 15 (class.). I. In gen. (so most freq. in Plautus). (a). With acc.: id quod sentit eloqui non posse, Cic. Tusc. 1, 3, 6; so, praeclare cogitata mentis, id. Brut. 72 fin.: audita, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 45: nomen meum, id. ib. prol. 18: argumentum hujus tragoediae, id. ib. 51; 96: rem, ut facta est, id. ib. 4, 5, 8 et saep.: ille unum elocutus, ut memoria tenerent milites, etc., Caes. B. C. 2, 34, 5: Gratum elocuta consiliantibus Junone divis "Ilion, Ilion," etc., Hor. C. 3, 3, 17 et saep.—(b).Absol., Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 48; id. Curc. 2, 3, 29: perge eloqui, Ter. Ph. 4, 3, 36: eloquar an sileam?Verg. A. 3, 39 et saep.—II. In partic., to speak in an oratorical or eloquent manner (only absol.): et Graece ab eloquendo r(h/twr et Latine eloquens dictus est, etc., Cic. Or. 19; cf. Quint. 10, 1, 3: eloqui copiose melius est, quam vel acutissime sine eloquentia cogitare, Cic. Off. 1, 44, 156; cf.: composite, ornate, copiose eloqui, id. de Or. 1, 11, 48: eloquendi facultas, Quint. 10, 1, 69 et saep.—Hence, ēlŏquens, entis, P. a.I.Speaking, endowed with the faculty of speech: cum res muta fit eloquens, Auct. Her. 4, 53.—II.Eloquent (for syn. cf.: facundus, disertus, etc.): Is est eloquens, qui et humilia subtiliter et magna graviter et mediocria temperate potest dicere, etc., Cic. Or. 29, 100 sq.; cf. id. ib. 36, 19: M. Antonius disertos ait se vidisse multos, eloquentem omnino neminem, id. ib. 5, 18 sq.; id. de Or. 1, 21; Quint. 8 prooem. 13; 12, 1, 21; cf. Plin. Ep. 5, 20, 5: rhetor, Cic. N. D. 2, 1: senator (Cato), Quint. 11, 1, 36: vir, Vulg. Act. 18, 24 et saep.—Comp., Quint. 12, 6, 6; App. Mag. p. 8 Bip.—Sup., Quint. 1, 1, 21; 4, 2, 58; 5, 13, 3; 8 prooem. 13; Cic. Brut. 39, 145; Tac. Agr. 10 al.—Adv.: ēlŏquen-ter, eloquently: eloquenter, logi/ws, Gloss. —Comp.: eloquentius quam prius scribitur, Plin. Ep. 3, 18, 6.—Sup.: eloquentissime respondere, Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 17; 6, 21, 4.!*? ēlŏcūtus, a, um, in pass. signif.: an quaedam extrinsecus sint elocuta, Dig. 3, 2, 13, 6.