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.
(α).
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.—*
II. In a bad sense, to talk violently, to bluster: “de aliquo,” Cic. Phil. 5, 7, 19; cf. id. ib. 2, 17.