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MorphologyDictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- postŭlātĭo, ōnis, f. [id.], a demanding, requiring; a demand, request, desire. I. Lit. (class.):
postulatio aequa et honesta
, Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 7: ignoscendi
, a begging pardon
, id. Inv. 2, 34, 104: concedere postulationi alicujus
, id. Mur. 23, 47: postulationi resistere
, id. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2: opinione valentior
, id. Att. 7, 6.—Plur., supplications: obsecro igitur primum omnium fieri obsecrationes, orationes, postulationes
, Vulg. 1 Tim. 2, 1; cf. id. Psa. 118, 170.—II. In partic. A. A complaint, expostulation (ante-class.), Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 26: acris
, id. Bacch. 3, 3, 45: neque lites ullae inter eas, postulatio Numquam
, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 105.— B. In a court of justice. 1. A complaint, an application for redress: postulationes ingerere
, Suet. Claud. 7; id. Ner. 7; Plin. Ep. 5, 14, 1; 7, 6, 3; 7, 33, 4: agi per judicis postulationem
, Gai. Inst. 4, 12.—2. An application to the prœtor to allow the presentation of a complaint, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 1.—C. A claim or demand made by a god for a forgotten sacrifice, Cic. Har. Resp. 10, 20; 14, 31 MSS. (dub.; B. and K. postilio, q. v.).
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