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suasio

suasio, a recommending, advocacy, support

suāsĭo, ōnis, f. [suadeo], a counselling, advice, exhortation, suasion, persuasion.
  • I In gen., Sen. Ep. 95, 65.—Plur.: omni suasionum admonitionumque genere utens, Gell. 10, 19, 4.—
  • II In partic.
    • A In publicists’ lang., a recommending, advocacy of a proposed law: suasio legis Serviliae, Cic. Clu. 51, 140.—
    • B In rhetoric, the suasory species of eloquence, Cic. Or. 11, 37: praecepta dare de suasionibus, id. de Or. 2, 81, 333.

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