rhetoricus

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rhētŏrĭcus: a, um, adj., = ῥητορικός,>
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 <number opt="n">sing.</number>: 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.