advoca
Dictionary entries
- Entry →advoco, advocare, advocavi, advocatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
call, summon, invite, convoke, call for; call in as counsel; invoke the Gods;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...utar verbo, 'opituletur' in minima descendat. Mihi crede, advoca illam in consilium: suadebit tibi ne ad calculos sedeas..."XVIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...quaestionem. in media civitate, in ipsa constitue fama, advoca illos malignos, illos loquaces, et saeculi rem exquire audiente..."Liber IV
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...quidem mihi cum isto, contra quem me advocas, non plane familiaris sed tamen amicitia. Accedit huc dignitas hominis..."