ex-hortor, ātus, 1
* V. dep. a. (act.: exhortavit,Petr. 76, 10; pass.: exhortantur,August. Ep. 228: exhortatus est,App. de Deo Soc. 1, 7), to exhort, encourage (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
* Prop.: trepidosque obitumque timentes,Ov. M. 15, 152; cf.: trepidos cives in hostem,id. ib. 13, 234: tauros in illum,id. ib. 7, 35: se in ambos,id. ib. 10, 685: sese in arma,Verg. A. 7, 472; cf. Quint. 10, 7, 19: Graeco sermone ad spem,Val. Max. 5, 1, 8: milites ad ultionem,Plin. 2, 107, 111, § 241.—With ut, Quint. 12, 8, 7; Petr. 140; Tac. Or. 14; cf. with simple subj.: juvenes nostros exhortatus es, consulatum circumirent,Plin. Pan. 69, 2.—With inf.: semetipsos hortantur vel aliquas partes earum addiscere,Col. 11, 1, 11.—Absol.: in alloquendo exhortandoque,Suet. Caes. 33.
* Transf., with abstr. objects, to stimulate, excite any thing: virtutes exhortabor,Sen. Ep. 121, 4: parsimoniam,Gell. 13, 23, 2; cf.: haec exhortare,Vulg. Tit. 2, 15.

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