dēclāmĭto
āvi, ātum, 1
I.
v., freq. n. and a. [declamo], to practise rhetorical delivery or declamation, to declaim (good prose; most frequent in Cic.).
I.
In a good sense.
(a).
Absol.: commentabar declamitans (sic enim nunc loquuntur), saepe cum M. Pisone et cum Q. Pompeio aut cum aliquo cotidie, Cic. Brut. 90, 310; so id. de Or. 1, 59, 251; id. Fam. 16, 21, 5; Quint. 12, 11, 15.—*
(b).
With acc.: causas, Cic. Tusc. 1, 4, 7.—
II.
In a bad sense, to talk violently, to bluster: de aliquo, Cic. Phil. 5, 7, 19; cf. id. ib. 2, 17.