Lewis Short
allēgātĭo | adl- (noun F) : (), , 1. allēgo.
* 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.
* Fig.
* 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.
* Esp., in the Lat. of the jurists, an imperial rescript, Cod. Th. 16, 5, 37.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary