(verb) : ef-flāgĭto, āvi, ātum, 1
* To demand or ask urgently, to request earnestly (class.; for syn. cf.: posco, flagito, exigo, obsecro, etc.): epistolam,Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 11: libros, Quint. Ep. ad Tryph. § 3: judicio rum desiderio tribunicia potestas efflagitata est,Cic. Div. in Caecil. 3, 8: collationes,Suet. Ner. 38: notum ensem,Verg. A. 12, 759; Suet. Tib. 12 fin.: signum pugnae,Liv. 3, 60: misericordiam alicujus (with requirere),Cic. Mil. 34 et saep.—With ut: cum iste a Cn. Dolabella efflagitasset, ut, etc.,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 24; Quint. Ep. ad Tryph. § 1; cf.: aliquem, ut, Auct. B. Hisp. 29, 7; and with simple subj., Suet. Tit. 5.—Absol.: a multis efflagitatus,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 36, 92 Zumpt N. cr.; Quint. 4, 5, 10; Suet. Dom. 3.

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