alloquor

Latin > English

alloquor alloqui, allocutus sum V DEP :: speak to (friendly); address, harangue, make a speech (to); call on; console

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

al-lŏquor: (adl-), cūtus, 3,
I v. dep. a.: aliquem, to speak to, to address, esp. used in greeting, admonishing, consoling. etc.; hence also, to salute; to exhort, rouse; to console (cf. in Gr. παραμυθέομαι; in the ante-class. and class. per. rare; in Cic. only twice; more freq. from the time of the Aug. poets).
I To speak to, to address: quem ore funesto adloquar? Att. ap. Non. 281, 6: admones et adloqueris, Vulg. Sap. 12, 2: hominem blande adloqui, Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 22; so id. And. 2, 2, 6: quem nemo adloqui vellet, Cic. Clu. 61; so Auct. ad Her. 4, 15, 22; Ov. M. 15, 22; 8, 728; 11, 283; 13, 739; Verg. A. 6, 466 al.: senatum, compositā in magnificentiam oratione, adlocutus, Tac. H. 3, 37; so id. A. 16, 91; id. Agr. 35: adlocutus est (eis) linguā Hebraeā, Vulg. Act. 21, 40; 28, 20.—
II Esp.
   A To address the gods in thanksgiving and prayer: dis gratias agere atque adloqui, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 26; 1, 1, 232; so, patriam adlocuta maestast ita voce miseriter, Cat. 63, 49.—
   B To address, as a general his troops, to exhort, to rouse: quae ubi consul accepit, sibimetipsi circumeundos adloquendosque milites ratus, Liv, 10, 35: (Alexander) variā oratione milites adloquebatur, Curt. 3, 10, 4: neque milites adlocuturo etc., Suet. Galb. 18; id. Caes. 33. —
   C In consolation, to speak to, to console, to comfort: adlocutum mulieres ire aiunt, cum eunt ad aliquam locutum consolandi causā, Varr. L. L. 6, 7, 66: adloqui in luctu, Sen. Troad. 619: adflictum adloqui caput, id. Oedip. 1029 P. and R.

Latin > German (Georges)

al-loquor (ad-loquor), adlocūtus sum, alloquī, ansprechen, anreden, an jmd. od. an eine Menge eine Ansprache od. Anrede halten, jmd. od. eine Menge begrüßen, zuw. auch = jmdm. zureden Vorstellungen machen, I) im allg.: alqm, Komik., Cornif. rhet., Cic. u.a.: quem alloquar? Acc. fr.: te alloquor, ich meine dich, Plaut.: populum, plebis homines, Liv.: si quando nosmet ipsos alloquemur cohortantes, obiurgantes, miserantes, Quint.: all. alqm facunde, Liv.: alqm benigne (Ggstz. graviter increpare), Liv.: alqm leniter, Liv.: alqm comiter, Curt.: affabiliter, Spart., mollius, Amm.: manipulatim (milites) mitius aut horridius, Tac.: alqm per pacem, Plaut.: Romanos miti sermone, Liv.: accuratiore alqm sermone quam parentes, Liv.: milites variā oratione, Curt.: senatum compositā in magnificentiam oratione, Tac.: senatus quam poterat honoratissimo decreto allocutus eos, Liv.: all. paucis milites od. populum, Liv.: alqm per interpretem, Liv.: eos ut necessarios hospitesque, Liv.: alqm sic od. ita m. folg. direkter Rede, Liv.: u. so alqm placido ore talibus, Ov. – II) insbes.: a) dankend od. flehend anreden, anflehen, Neptunum, Naev. fr. bell. Pun. 1, 8 V. (b. Prisc. 7, 75): deos, Plaut. Amph. 181: patriam maestā ita voce miseriter, Catull. 63, 49. – b) ermunternd, tröstend jmdm. zusprechen, zureden, jmd. trösten, (Ggstz. gratulari), alloquendi officium, Val. Max. 2, 7, 6: allocutum ire, Varr. LL. 6, 57: all. afflictum, Sen. Oed. 1029: parentes in luctu, Sen. Troad. 628: omnem Israel, Vulg. Iudith 4, 11.

Latin > Chinese

alloquor, eris, cutus sum, qui. d. 3. (loquor.) :: 論。慰言。唁人。Allocutum te ivit 其已往謁汝。