appellationes+regum+venales+erant

1) обращение (к кому-л.) с речью Cs

2) воззвание, тж. апеллирование ( ad populum PM); апелляция (a judicibus, ad senatum Su)

3) наименование, имя, титул ( imperatoria VP)

4) произношение (litterarum C, Q)

5) грам. имя существительное Q

appellātĭo, ōnis, f. [2. appello].

A going to one in order to accost or make a request of him (not found in earlier Lat.).

An address, an accosting: hanc nactus appellationis causam, this opportunity for an address or appeal, Caes. B. C. 2, 28.—Hence,

In judicial lang., t. t., an appeal:

intercessit appellatio tribunorum, i. e. ad tribunos,

Cic. Quint. 20 fin.; so id. Vatin. 14 fin.:

appellationem et tribunicium auxilium,

Liv. 9, 26:

appellatio provocatioque,

id. 3, 56; Suet. Aug. 33:

ut omnes appellationes a judicibus ad Senatum fierent,

id. Ner. 17; so,

ad populum,

Plin. 6, 22, 24, § 90 al. —

Esp.

A calling by name, a naming:

neque nominum ullorum intereos appellatio est,

Plin. 5, 8, 8, § 45.—Hence, meton. syn. with nomen, name, title, appellation (mostly post-Aug.):

voluit appellatione hac inani nobis esse par,

Cic. Att. 5, 20, 4:

regum appellationes venales erant,

id. Dom. 50:

qui non aura, non procella, sed mares appellatione quoque ipsā venti sunt,

Plin. 2, 45, 45, § 116; Tac. A. 3, 56; Suet. Ner. 55; id. Aug. 100; id. Dom. 13; id. Tib. 67; id. Vesp. 12:

nihil esse rem publicam, appellationem modo,

a mere name, id. Caes. 77.—

In gram.

Pronunciation:

suavitas vocis et lenis appellatio litterarum,

Cic. Brut. 74, 259; Quint. 11, 3, 35 (cf. 2. appello, II. E.).—

A substantive, Quint. 9, 3, 9; cf. id. 1, 4, 20, and Scaurus ap. Diom. p. 306 P.