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
- M
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..." - P
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..."