postulatio: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>postŭlātĭo</b>: ōnis, f. id.,<br /><b>I</b> a demanding, requiring; a [[demand]], [[request]], [[desire]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit. ([[class]].): [[postulatio]] aequa et honesta, Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 7: ignoscendi, a [[begging]] [[pardon]], id. Inv. 2, 34, 104: concedere postulationi alicujus, id. Mur. 23, 47: postulationi resistere, id. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2: opinione valentior, id. Att. 7, 6.—Plur., supplications: [[obsecro]] [[igitur]] [[primum]] omnium fieri obsecrationes, orationes, postulationes, Vulg. 1 Tim. 2, 1; cf. id. Psa. 118, 170.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[complaint]], [[expostulation]] ([[ante]]-[[class]].), Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 26: acris, id. Bacch. 3, 3, 45: [[neque]] lites ullae [[inter]] eas, [[postulatio]] Numquam, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 105.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In a [[court]] of [[justice]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[complaint]], an [[application]] for [[redress]]: postulationes ingerere, Suet. Claud. 7; id. Ner. 7; Plin. Ep. 5, 14, 1; 7, 6, 3; 7, 33, 4: agi per judicis postulationem, Gai. Inst. 4, 12.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An [[application]] to the prœtor to [[allow]] the presentation of a [[complaint]], Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> A [[claim]] or [[demand]] made by a [[god]] for a forgotten [[sacrifice]], Cic. Har. Resp. 10, 20; 14, 31 MSS. (dub.; B. and K. [[postilio]], q. v.).