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Menander, Monostichoi, 485

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

suādēla: (less correctly suādella), ae, f. suadeo.
I Exhortation, suasion, persuasion (ante- and post-class.): jam perducebam illam ad me suadela mea, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 24: suadela depravata, App. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 28, 15.—Plur.: his et hujusmodi suadelis, etc., App. M. 9, p. 225, 20.—
II Suadela, personified, the goddess of Persuasion, the Gr. Πειθώ, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 38.