postŭlātĭo (noun F) : id.
* A demanding, requiring; a demand, request, desire.
* Lit. (class.): postulatio aequa et honesta,Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 7: ignoscendi,a begging pardon,id. Inv. 2, 34, 104: concedere postulationi alicujus,id. Mur. 23, 47: postulationi resistere,id. Q. Fr. 2, 9, 2: opinione valentior,id. Att. 7, 6.—Plur., supplications: obsecro igitur primum omnium fieri obsecrationes, orationes, postulationes,Vulg. 1 Tim. 2, 1; cf. id. Psa. 118, 170.
* In partic.
* A complaint, expostulation (ante-class.), Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 26: acris,id. Bacch. 3, 3, 45: neque lites ullae inter eas, postulatio Numquam,Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 105.
* In a court of justice.
* A complaint, an application for redress: postulationes ingerere,Suet. Claud. 7; id. Ner. 7; Plin. Ep. 5, 14, 1; 7, 6, 3; 7, 33, 4: agi per judicis postulationem,Gai. Inst. 4, 12.
* A claim or demand made by a god for a forgotten sacrifice, Cic. Har. Resp. 10, 20; 14, 31 MSS. (dub.; B. and K. postilio, q. v.).

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