exhortor

ex-hortor, ātus, 1, v. dep. a. ( act.:

exhortavit,

Petr. 76, 10; pass.:

exhortantur,

August. Ep. 228:

exhortatus est,

App. de Deo Soc. 1, 7 ), to exhort, encourage ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I.

Prop.:

trepidosque obitumque timentes,

Ov. M. 15, 152; cf.:

trepidos cives in hostem,

id. ib. 13, 234:

tauros in illum,

id. ib. 7, 35:

se in ambos,

id. ib. 10, 685:

sese in arma,

Verg. A. 7, 472; cf. Quint. 10, 7, 19:

Graeco sermone ad spem,

Val. Max. 5, 1, 8:

milites ad ultionem,

Plin. 2, 107, 111, § 241.—With ut, Quint. 12, 8, 7; Petr. 140; Tac. Or. 14; cf. with simple subj.:

juvenes nostros exhortatus es, consulatum circumirent,

Plin. Pan. 69, 2.—With inf.:

semetipsos hortantur vel aliquas partes earum addiscere,

Col. 11, 1, 11.— Absol.:

in alloquendo exhortandoque,

Suet. Caes. 33.—

II.

Transf., with abstr. objects, to stimulate, excite any thing:

virtutes exhortabor,

Sen. Ep. 121, 4:

parsimoniam,

Gell. 13, 23, 2; cf.:

haec exhortare,

Vulg. Tit. 2, 15.