συνηγορία
From LSJ
νέῳ δὲ σιγᾶν μᾶλλον ἢ λαλεῖν πρέπει → it's fitting for a young man to keep silence rather than to speak (Menander)
English (LSJ)
ἡ,
A advocacy of another's cause, Aeschin.3.7 (pl.); μετὰ -ίας ἐπιρρωννύντες Phld.Ir.p.65 W.; εἰς τὴν -ίαν τοῦ ἴδια πάθη γίνεσθαι γυναικῶν Sor.2.3, cf. Gal.15.578; right to practise as an advocate, PGiss.40 ii 4(iii A.D.): pl., περὶ τῶν συμμάχων Arist.Rh. Al.1425a7, cf. OGI567.19 (Attalia, ii A.D.), CIG2795 (Aphrodisias). 2 ἡ συνηγορία τοῦ τι εἶναι the affirmative, A.D.Synt. 235.13. 3 ἀπὸ -ῶν ταμείου sometime advocatus fisci, IG3.712a.
