advocationum
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;
gen. pl.
Examples
Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...orationem" ponet ante oculos, fructumque non ex stipe advocationum sed ex animo suo et contemplatione ac scientia petet..."Dialogus de Oratoribus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...insequi poetas intermittis, et ego, cui desidiam advocationum obicis, cotidianum hoc patrocinium defendendae adversus te poeticae exerceo..."