Allegatio, Verbale. Ci. A solitation or intreatie made by friends or messengers.Allego állegis, pen. cor. allégi, pen. prod. alléctum, allégere. To ascribe: to choose to a companie: to assigne.Allegere in ordinem. Vlpian. To admit into a companie.Instanti sæpius vt ciuitate donatum in Decurias allegeret, negauit se allecturum. Sueton. Allegere inter Prætorios.To ascribe among the Pretours.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
allēgātĭo (adl-), ōnis, f. [1. allēgo]. I.Lit., a sending or despatching to any one (in the class. per. only twice in Cic.): cum sibi omnes ad istum adlegationes difficiles viderent, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 51, 136; and in a pun: quibus adlegationibus illam sibi legationem expugnavit, id. ib. 17.—II. Fig. A. In gen., an alleging or adducing by way of proof, excuse, and the like: si maritus uxorem ream faciat, an lenocinii adlegatio repellat maritum ab accusatione?Dig. 48, 5, 2; so ib. 4, 4, 17; 23, 2, 60; App. M. 10, p. 241, 26.—B. Esp., in the Lat. of the jurists, an imperial rescript, Cod. Th. 16, 5, 37.