advocarent
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;
pl. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- T
Pseudolus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...vides iam diem multum esse. BAL. Video: hunc advocare etiam volo; mane modo istic, iam revertar..." - L
de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...adeo nihil facilius potes quam contra Caesarem advocare. Cedo, si spes tuas solus impedio, Paulusne te et Fabius..." - M
Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...possunt magis habere miserabile? CXV. Serum est enim advocare iis rebus adfectum in peroratione quas securus narraveris: adsuevit..." - G
Liber VII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...secus, nihil ad me. Ego enim non populum advocare sed certos electosque soleo, quos intuear quibus credam, quos..."