alloquor

al-lŏquor ( adl- ), cūtus, 3, v. dep. a.: aliquem, to speak to, to address, esp. used in greeting, admonishing, consoling. etc.; hence also, to salute; to exhort, rouse; to console (cf. in Gr. paramutheomai; in the ante-class. and class. per. rare; in Cic. only twice; more freq. from the time of the Aug. poets).

I.

To speak to, to address: quem ore funesto adloquar? Att. ap. Non. 281, 6:

admones et adloqueris,

Vulg. Sap. 12, 2:

hominem blande adloqui,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 22; so id. And. 2, 2, 6:

quem nemo adloqui vellet,

Cic. Clu. 61; so Auct. ad Her. 4, 15, 22; Ov. M. 15, 22; 8, 728; 11, 283; 13, 739; Verg. A. 6, 466 al.:

senatum, compositā in magnificentiam oratione, adlocutus,

Tac. H. 3, 37; so id. A. 16, 91; id. Agr. 35:

adlocutus est (eis) linguā Hebraeā,

Vulg. Act. 21, 40; 28, 20.—

II.

Esp.

A.

To address the gods in thanksgiving and prayer:

dis gratias agere atque adloqui,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 26; 1, 1, 232; so,

patriam adlocuta maestast ita voce miseriter,

Cat. 63, 49.—

B.

To address, as a general his troops, to exhort, to rouse:

quae ubi consul accepit, sibimetipsi circumeundos adloquendosque milites ratus, Liv, 10, 35: (Alexander) variā oratione milites adloquebatur,

Curt. 3, 10, 4:

neque milites adlocuturo etc.,

Suet. Galb. 18; id. Caes. 33. —

C.

In consolation, to speak to, to console, to comfort:

adlocutum mulieres ire aiunt, cum eunt ad aliquam locutum consolandi causā,

Varr. L. L. 6, 7, 66:

adloqui in luctu,

Sen. Troad. 619:

adflictum adloqui caput,

id. Oedip. 1029 P. and R.