“They could, therefore, rely more on an orotund voice when the circumstances required competence, confidence, and enthusiasm early in the interaction.”

“A contemporary critic of Tacitism even observed that Tacitus's prose style sounded like the clipped commands of a soldier, quite different from the orotund and peaceful prose of Cicero.”

“When more emotion was needed, the volume was turned up, or the elocution became more orotund.”