Causor, causaris, causari, Deponens. Suet. To alleage a reason or excuse.Causari tempestatem & vim fluminum. Vlpian. To lay the tÊpest and great fluds for his excuse.Causari. Quint. To accuse. Nunquid causare, quin ab iudicio abeas turpilsimè victus? Cicer.Doest thou asseage any thing for thy selfe: or haste thou any thing to say for thy selfe?
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
causor (causs-), ātus, 1, v. n. and trans. [causa]. I. In the ante-class. per., to plead, dispute concerning a subject, to discuss it for and against, to debate a question, Pac., Att., and Afran. ap. Non. p. 89, 11 sq.— II. Since the Aug. per. (in Ciceronian Lat. the word is not used), to give as a reason (a real, and more freq. a feigned one) for something, to make a pretext of, to pretend, to plead.(a). With acc.: multa, Lucr. 1, 398: aves aut omina dira, Tib. 1, 3, 17 sq.: omina Visaque, Ov. M. 9, 768: nec freta pressurus tumidos causabitur Euros, id. Am. 1, 9, 13: stultus uterque locum immeritum causatur inique: in culpā est animus. Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 12: ipse valetudinem excusans, patre animi quoque ejus haud mirabilem interturbationem causante, Liv. 23, 8, 7; 3, 64, 2; 36, 10, 13: negotia, Tac. A. 1, 47 fin.: valetudinem, id. H. 3, 59 fin.: adversam patris voluntatem, id. A. 13, 44: diei tempus, Curt. 4, 16, 18 al.— (b).Absol.: causando nostros in longum ducis amores, Verg. E. 9, 56.—(g). With acc. and inf., Liv. 5, 15, 6; 28, 35, 2; Tib. 1, 3, 17; Suet. Ner. 49; Curt. 6, 5, 31; Gell. 18, 4, 9. —(d). With quod: causatus in utroque, quod hic non esset secutus, etc., Suet. Calig. 23; Dig. 16, 3, 3.—(e) With inf.: causari accipere rationes,