advocationis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →advocatio, advocationis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
legal support/advisors; delay, adjournment, postponement; pleading in courts;
acc. pl.gen. sg.nom. pl.
Examples
Dialogus de Oratoribus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...offendis. Nec excusatur offensa necessitudine officii aut fide advocationis aut fortuitae et subitae dictionis impetu: meditatus videris..."Liber VI
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...occupationibus distentus adnitar. Cupio enim et ornatissimam coloniam advocationis officio, et te gratissimo tibi munere obstringere..."Liber III
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...causis solet esse tristissimum, periculum senatoris. Videbam ergo advocationi meae non minorem gratiam quam si viveret ille propositam..."