Peroro, peroras, pen. prod. perorâre. Cic.To speake or reason to an ende: to reason persltely: to tell a tale to an ende: to make an ende of an oration.Concludere & perorare.Cic.Breui perorare.Cic.To make an ende of his oration in few wordes.Ad arbitrium alicuius perorare.Cic.Narrationem perorare. Author ad Heren. Perorare causam aliquam vel litem. Cice. To pleade a cause thronghly to the end.Perorare in aliquem. Plin. To pleade against one: to make an oration against one. Perorare orationem.Cic.To pronounce an oration to the ende.Perorare certum aliquod crimen.Cic.To ende pleading of one matter, and passe to an other. Perorari, Passiuum.Cic. Queritur priore patrono causam defendente, nunquam perorari potuisse. That hee coulde neuer pronounce hys oration to an ende. Perorare. Quint. With his oration to mooue affections.
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pĕr-ōro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to speak from beginning to end, to plead or argue throughout, to harangue at length (class.). I. Prop.: QVOM PERORANT AMBO PRAESENTES, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 17, 2, 10: contra tales oratores tantam causam perorare, Cic. Quint. 24, 77: a Quinto Hortensio causa est P. Sestii perorata, id. Sest. 2, 3: et breviter peroratum esse potuit, nihil me commisisse, Liv. 34, 31: jus perorandi, Tac. A. 2, 30; 3, 17: tribus horis, Cic. Fin. 4, 1, 1; id. Clu. 51, 145: in Proculas, Juv. 2, 67.— II. In partic., to bring a speech to a close, to wind up, conclude, finish: strepitu senatūs coactus est, aliquando perorare, Cic. Att. 4, 2, 4: alii jubent antequam peroretur digredi, id. de Or. 2, 19, 80: dicta est a me causa et perorata, id. Cael. 29, 70; id. Inv. 2, 15, 48; id. Leg. 2, 27, 69: brevi, id. Inv. 1, 48, 90: peroratā narratione, Auct. Her. 1, 10, 17: quoniam satis multa dixi, est mihi perorandum, id. Ac. 2, 48, 147: de ceteris perorare, Nep. Epam. 6, 3.—B. In gen., to bring to an end; to conclude, finish a thing: res illo die non peroratur, dimittitur judicium, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 29, 70: de quā cum dixero totum hoc crimen decumanum perorabo, id. ib. 2, 3, 66, 154; id. Att. 5, 10, 2.—2.To persuade: vultus adest precibus faciesque incesta perorat, Luc. 10, 105.—III. (Acc. to oro, II. B.) To pray, to bring a prayer to an end: et hic quidem ita peroravit, Vulg. 2 Macc. 15, 24.