LAT
invoco
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Lewis Short
(verb) : in-vŏco, āvi, ātum, 1
* To call upon, invoke (cf. imploro), esp. as a witness or for aid.
* Lit.
* With living beings as objects: alium invocat, cum alio cantat, Naev. ap. Isid. Orig. 1, 26: invoco vos, Lares viales,Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 23: sibi deos,id. Am. 5, 1, 9; cf.: in pariendo Junonem Lucmam,Cic. N. D. 2, 27, 68: deos in auxilium,Quint. 4 prooem. § 5: deos precibus,Tac. A. 16, 31: Deos testes,Liv. 45, 31; Curt. 4, 10, 33; 5, 12, 3.—With a foll. subj.: justae preces invocantium, ad ultionem accingerentur,Tac. H. 4, 79.
* Transf., in gen., to call by name, to name: aspice hoc sublimen candens, quem invocant omnes Jovem, Enn. ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 4 (Trag. v. 402 Vahl.): aliquem dominum, regem,Curt. 10, 5, 9: reginas dominasque veris quondam, tunc alienis nominibus invocantes,id. 3, 11, 25.
* To call upon, invoke (cf. imploro), esp. as a witness or for aid.
* Lit.
* With living beings as objects: alium invocat, cum alio cantat, Naev. ap. Isid. Orig. 1, 26: invoco vos, Lares viales,Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 23: sibi deos,id. Am. 5, 1, 9; cf.: in pariendo Junonem Lucmam,Cic. N. D. 2, 27, 68: deos in auxilium,Quint. 4 prooem. § 5: deos precibus,Tac. A. 16, 31: Deos testes,Liv. 45, 31; Curt. 4, 10, 33; 5, 12, 3.—With a foll. subj.: justae preces invocantium, ad ultionem accingerentur,Tac. H. 4, 79.
* Transf., in gen., to call by name, to name: aspice hoc sublimen candens, quem invocant omnes Jovem, Enn. ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 4 (Trag. v. 402 Vahl.): aliquem dominum, regem,Curt. 10, 5, 9: reginas dominasque veris quondam, tunc alienis nominibus invocantes,id. 3, 11, 25.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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