adhortor

ăd-hortor, āri, ātus, 1, v. dep., to encourage, urge, exhort one to a thing, constr. with ad, in, de, or absol.:

nam me meae vitae consuetudo ad C. Rabirium defendendum est adhortata,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 1:

ne posset aliquando ad bellum faciendum locus ipse adhortari,

id. Off. 1, 11, 35:

aliquem ad certam laudem,

id. Fam. 1, 7:

loricatos ad discumbendum,

Suet. Calig. 45:

in bellum,

Tac. H. 3, 61:

in ultionem sui,

Suet. Ner. 41:

de re frumentaria Boios atque Aeduos adhortari non destitit,

he did not cease to incite and spur on the Boii and Aedui, in respect to a supply of corn, Caes. B. G. 7, 17.— Absol.:

milites,

Cic. Phil. 4, 5:

nullo adhortante sibi quisque dux et instigator,

Tac. H. 1, 38.—Followed by ut, ne, or the simple subj.:

adhort. adulescentes, ut turbulenti velint esse,

Cic. Phil. 1, 9:

tandem Bruto adhortante, ne jamdudum operientes destitueret,

Suet. Caes. 81:

adhortor, properent,

Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 35: adhortari se, to rouse or bestir one's self: ferus ipse (leo) sese adhortans rapidum incitat animo, Catull. 63, 85.

► Pass.

: adulati erant ab amicis et adhortati, Cassius ap. Prisc. 791 P.: punctione aliqua adhortati vel titillati, Cael. Aurel. Acut. 2, 3.