Eloquium, eloquij. n. g. Plau. Speach in a pleasant maner: eloquent speach.Potentis eloquij vittus. Stat The strength of eloquence.Nitor eloquij.Ouid.Beautie of eloquent speach.Blandiens eloquium. Ausonius. Cultum eloquium. Auson. Trimme eloquence.Fertile eloquium. Claud. Insolitum eloquium. Horat. Latiale eloquium. Sidonius. Eloquence in the latine tongue.Liquidum eloquium. Auson. Flowing eloquence.Melleum eloquium. Auson. Sweete and pleasant.Vincere aliquem eloquio. Oui. Vernans eloquium. Sidon. Vocale eloquium, hoc est, Carmen grande & sonorum. Iuu.
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.
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ēlŏquĭum, ii, n. [id.]. 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,
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.