conceptOratoryWordsPublic speaking as a practiced art. Not rhetoric as the wider craft alone, and not oracle as a speech-site dump.Roman religionOratory appears in Roman religion.The Aeneid stages formal oratory among councils and embassies. A named oratory speech craft in that epic, not rhetoric as the art-name alone and not every debate dump.from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)appears in · sourced · documentedsourcesAeneid · VirgilVirgil, Aeneid.