_actio_ (Brut. 38)—delivery.
_pronuntiatio_[1] c. Gen.—artistic delivery; declamation.
_actio paulum claudicat_[2]—the delivery is rather halting, poor.
_haerere, haesitare_ (Catil. 2. 6. 13)—to stop short, hesitate.
_perturbari, permoveri_—to be nervous, embarrassed.
_de scripto orationem_[3] _habere, dicere_ (opp. _sine scripto, ex
memoria_)—to read a speech.
_interpellare aliquem (dicentem)_—to interrupt.
_vox magna, clara_ (Sulla 10. 30)—a strong, loud voice.
_vox gravis, acuta, parva, mediocris_—a deep, high, thin, moderate
voice.
_vox canōra_ (Brut. 63. 234)—a melodious, ringing voice.
_vox lenis, suppressa, summissa_—a gentle, subdued voice.
_vocem mittere_ (_sonitum reddere_ of things)—to speak, utter a sound.
_vocem summittere_—to lower one's voice.
_contentio, remissio vocis_—raising, lowering the voice.
_vocem intercludere_ (Just. 11. 8. 4)—to prevent some one from speaking.
_nulla vox est ab eo audita_—no sound passed his lips.
_magna voce clamare_—to shout at the top of one's voice.
_clamorem tollere_ (Liv. 3. 28)—to raise a shout, a cry.
_gestum_ (always in the sing.) _agere_—to gesticulate.
[1] Not _declamatio_ which = an oratorical exercise. Distinguish
_pronuntiare_ (De Or. 1. 59. 251), to declaim a thing according to the
rules of rhetoric; and _declamare_ = to go through rhetorical
exercises as a practice in speaking.
[2] _claudicare_ often metaph. of things which are unequal, weak, e.g.
_amicitia claudicat_ (Fin. 1. 69).
[3] But to read a speech _orationem legere_ (Brut. 51. 191); to read
with expression, _recitare_ (Phil. 10.2. 5).