subgestio

suggestĭo ( subg- ), ōnis, f. [suggero].

* I.

Lit., an adding to, addition:

potus suggestione auctus,

Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 13, 182.—

II.

Trop.

* A.

A rhet. fig., where the orator puts a question and answers it himself, a suggestion:

quod schema quidam per suggestionem vocant, i. e. per subjectionem,

Quint. 9, 2, 15.—

B.

A hint, intimation, suggestion (late Lat.), Vop. Aur. 14; 19; Symm. Ep. 9, 20; Inscr. Orell. 2.