schŏlastĭcus

I. Adj. = σχολαστικός, of or belonging to a school, scholastic (post-Aug., and in gen. referring to the schools of rhetoric): controversiae, Quint. 4, 2, 92; 4, 2, 97; Tac. Or. 14 fin.: materia, Quint. 11, 1, 82: declamationes, Gell. 15, 1, 1: scholasticae atque umbraticae litterae, Plin. Ep. 9, 2, 3: lex, id. ib. 2, 20, 9.— As subst.: schŏlastĭca, ōrum, n. plur., school-exercises: in scholasticis nonnumquam evenit, ut pro narratione sit propositio, Quint. 4, 2, 30; 7, 1, 14.—

II. Subst.: schŏlastĭcus, i, m., one who teaches or studies rhetoric, a lecturer in the schools, a rhetorician (opp. to a public orator): (Isaeus rhetor) annum sexagesimum excessit et adhuc scholasticus tantum est, etc., Plin. Ep. 2, 3, 5 sq.; cf.: nunc adulescentuli nostri deducuntur in scenas scholasticorum qui rhetores vocantur, quos, etc., Tac. Or. 35; 26 fin.; Suet. Rhet. 6; Quint. 12, 11, 16; Petr. 6: contentis scholasticorum clamoribus, Tac. Or. 15.—Of rhetoricians, who, on account of their knowledge of law, acted as pleaders or advocates in lawsuits, Cod. Th. 8, 10, 2; Aug. Tract. in Joann. 7.—As a term of reproach, a pedant: heus tu scholastice, App. M. 2, p. 119, 8; Petr. 61, 4.—

B. In gen., a man of learning, a scholar, Alex. Aur. ap. Capit. Maxim. jun. 3; Veg. 4, prooem. § 2; Hier. Vir. Ill. 99 al.—Of a grammarian, Verg. Cat. 7, 4.—Hence, adv.: schŏlastĭcē, rhetorically, Sulp. Sev. Dial. 1, 4.