I.of or belonging to a rhetorician, rhetorical.
I. Adj.: “nostro more aliquando, non rhetorico loquamur,” Cic. de Or. 1, 29, 133: “ars,” i. e. a treatise on rhetoric, id. Fin. 4, 3, 7: “rhetorici doctores,” i. e. teachers of rhetoric, Cic. de Or. 1, 19, 86: “syllogismus,” Quint. 5, 10, 3; 9, 4, 57: “libri,” books on rhetoric, Cic. de Or. 2, 3, 10. — Hence,
II. Substt.
A. rhētŏrĭca , ae, or rhētŏrĭcē , ēs, f. (the first form in Cic., the latter in Quint.), the art of oratory, rhetoric: “dicam, si potero, rhetorice, sed hac rhetoricā philosophorum, non nostrā illa forensi,” Cic. Fin. 2, 6, 17: “rhetorice est bene dicendi scientia,” Quint. 5, 10, 54: “et rhetorice, cui nomen vis eloquentiae dedit,” id. 2, 1, 5: “jus rhetorices, id. prooem. § 23: rhetoricen exercere,” id. 2, 1, 3; 2, 15, 24: “de rhetorice,” id. 2, 15, 10. —
B. rhētŏrĭci , ōrum, m.
1. Teachers of oratory, = rhetores, ipsi magistri, qui rhetorici vocantur, Cic. de Or. 1, 12, 52.—
2. Books on rhetoric: “nisi rhetoricos suos (the erroneouslynamed books de Inventione) ipse adulescenti sibi elapsos diceret (Cicero),” Quint. 3, 1, 20; so, “in rhetoricis,” id. 2, 15, 6; also in sing.: “sicut ex Ciceronis rhetorico primo manifestum est,” id. 3, 5, 14; 3, 6, 58.—
C. Neutr. plur.: rhētŏrĭca , ōrum, rhetoric: “rhetorica mihi vestra sunt nota,” Cic. Fat. 2, 4.— Adv.: rhētŏrĭcē , in an oratorical or rhetorical manner, oratorically, rhetorically: “rhetorice igitur nos mavis quam dialectice disputare?” Cic. Fin. 2, 6, 17: “ejus mortem rhetorice et tragice ornare,” id. Brut. 11, 43: “quam rhetorice!” id. Tusc. 3, 26, 63.
