Alloquium, Verbale. Plin. A communication or speech.Medici, salubres, sed voluptate carentes cibos blandioribus alloquijs prosequuntur.Plin. iunior. See forth with faire wordes.Benignum alloquiùm Liu.Friendly talke.Alloquia dulcia. Horat. Alloquium mite.Stat. Alloquium aptare. Stat.
Alloquor, pen. cor. allóqueris, allocûtus sum, álloqui. Cicero. Virg.To speake to.Alloqui cum aliquo. Curtius. To talke with one.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
allŏquĭum (adl-), ii, n. [alloquor], a speaking to, addressing, an address, exhortation, encouragement, consolation, etc. (postAug.): adloquio leni perlicere homines ad dedendam urbem, Liv. 25, 24: fortunam benigno adloquio adjuvabat, id. 1, 34: blandioribus adloquiis prosequi, Plin. Ep. 1, 8: adloquio militem firmare, Tac. H. 3, 36; Ov. Tr. 1, 8, 18; Hor. Epod. 13, 18 al.—In Luc., in gen., = colloquium, conversation: longis producere noctem adloquiis, 10, 174.
al-lŏquor (adl-), cūtus, 3, 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. paramuqe/omai; 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.