advocavi
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. perf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...auribus officit. Sed ego vos, quo pauca monerem, advocavi, simul uti causam mei consili aperirem. "Scitis equidem, milites..."Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...SCAURO SUO S. Recitaturus oratiunculam quam publicare cogito, advocavi aliquos ut vererer, paucos ut verum audirem. Nam mihi..."