(adjective) = ῥητορικός,: rhētŏrĭcus, a, um
* Of or belonging to a rhetorician, rhetorical.
* 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
* Substt.
* 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.
* Rhētŏrĭci, ōrum, m.
* Teachers of oratory, = rhetores, ipsi magistri, qui rhetorici vocantur, Cic. de Or. 1, 12, 52.
* 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.