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The book, A Tour Through Italy, Exhibiting a View of Its Scenery . . . Volume 2, by John Chetwode Eustace (ca. 1762-1815), used the word rhetor in a note on page 158:
As for the contemptuous term rhetor, if Cicero was not an orator in the highest sense of the word, whoever was?
From Wiktionary—rhetor:
Noun
- A rhetorician
Etymology: Latin rhētor (“teacher of rhetoric, rhetorician”), from Ancient Greek ῥήτωρ (rhḗtōr)
Wikipedia on rhetoric.