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soliciting for office

  • 1 petitio

    pĕtītĭo, ōnis, f. [peto].
    I.
    Lit., an attack, a blow, thrust, pass:

    tuas petiti ones effugi,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 15; cf.:

    petitiones proprie dicimus impetus gladiorum,

    Serv. Verg. A. 9, 439.—
    B.
    Trop., an attack made in words before a court of justice, Cic. Or. 68, 228;

    or in debate,

    id. Cat. 1, 6, 15; cf.:

    novi omnis hominis petitiones rationesque dicendi,

    methods of attack, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 14, 44; id. de Or. 3, 54, 206.—
    II.
    In gen., a requesting, beseeching; a request, petition for any thing (postAug.), Plin. 29, 4, 19, § 66: huic quoque petitioni tuae negare non sustineo, Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 7 (23); Gell. 11, 16, 8 al.—
    2.
    Esp. (eccl. Lat.), a request offered to God, a prayer:

    impleat Dominus omnes petitiones tuas,

    Vulg. Psa. 19, 6; id. Phil. 4, 6; id. 1 Johan. 5, 15: petitionem offerre Domino Deo, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 16, 1, 4.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    An applying or soliciting for office, an application, solicitation, candidacy, Cic. Att. 1, 1, 1:

    petitioni se dari,

    to become a candidate for office, id. Fam. 13, 10, 2:

    consulatus,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 22:

    pontificatūs,

    Sall. C. 49, 2:

    regni,

    Just. 1, 10, 17:

    tribunatūs et aedilitatis,

    Val. Max. 6, 9, 14:

    dare alicui petitionem consulatūs,

    to admit one as a candidate for the consulship, Suet. Caes. 26:

    abstinere petitione honorum,

    Tac. A. 2, 43; Suet. Caes. 28:

    petitioni se dare,

    to solicit an office, Cic. Fam. 13, 10.—
    2.
    A laying claim to any thing, a suit, petition, in private or civil cases (opp. the accusatio, in criminal cases):

    petitio pecuniae,

    Quint. 4, 4, 6:

    hereditatis,

    Dig. 44, 5, 3:

    integram petitionem relinquere,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 18, 56.—
    3.
    A right of claim, a right to bring an action of recovery:

    cavere, neminem, cujus petitio sit, petiturum,

    Cic. Brut. 5, 18; Dig. 2, 14, 56.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > petitio

  • 2 petītiō

        petītiō ōnis, f    [PET-], a blow, thrust, pass, attack, aim: tuas petitiones effugi; hence, of oratorical fencing: orator nec plagam gravem facit, nisi petitio fuerit apta, nec, etc.: hominis petitiones rationesque dicendi, methods of attack.—A seeking, soliciting: indutiarum, L.— A soliciting for office, application, solicitation, candidacy, canvass: petitioni se dare, become a candidate: consulatūs, Cs.: pontificatūs, S.—In law, a claim, suit, petition, complaint, declaration: cuius petitio sit.
    * * *
    candidacy; petition

    Latin-English dictionary > petītiō

  • 3 ambitio

    ambĭtĭo, ōnis, f. [ambio], a going round.
    I.
    In the time of the republic, t. t. (v. ambio, II. B.), the going about of candidates for office in Rome, and the soliciting of individual citizens for their vote, a canvassing, suing for office (by just and lawful means;

    while ambitus denotes unlawful means, as bribery, threats, etc.): quid de nostris ambitionibus loquar?

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 62:

    mea me ambitio ab omni illā cogitatione abstrahebat,

    id. Sull. 4:

    cum ambitionis nostrae tempora postulabant,

    id. Planc. 18, 45:

    si infinitus forensium rerum labor et ambitionis occupatio decursu honorum etiam aetatis flexu constitisset,

    id. de Or. 1, 1, 1:

    hic magistratus a populo summā ambitione contenditur,

    id. Verr. 2, 53, 131:

    tanta exarsit ambitio, ut primores civitatis prensarent homines,

    Liv. 3, 35, 1 et saep.—
    II.
    A.. In gen., a striving for one's favor or good-will; an excessive desire to please, flattery, adulation:

    ambitione labi,

    Cic. Brut. 69, 244:

    sive aliquā suspitione sive ambitione adducti,

    id. Clu. 28, 76:

    in Scipione ambitio major, vita tristior,

    id. Off. 1, 30, 108 Heus., Beier, and Gernh.: Dionysius Platonem magnā ambitione Syracusas perduxit, in an ostentatious manner, for the purpose of securing his favor, Nep. Dion, 2, 2 Br. and Dähn.:

    ambitio (i.e. studium Fabiis placendi) obstabat,

    Liv. 5, 36:

    ambitione relegatā,

    without flattery, Hor. S. 1, 10, 84: ambitionem scriptoris facile averseris, obtrectatio et livor pronis auribus accipiuntur, Tac. H. 1, 1:

    nullo officii aut ambitionis genere omisso, i.e. nullis blanditiis,

    Suet. Oth. 4:

    coronas quam parcissime et sine ambitione tribuit,

    id. Aug. 25 et saep.—Hence, also partiality:

    jus sibi per ambitionem dictum non esse,

    Liv. 3, 47.—
    B.
    With the predom. idea of the purpose or end, a desire for honor, popularity, power, display, etc.; in bon. part., ambition; in mal. part., vanity. —So in Lucr. of the ambitious efforts of men:

    Angustum per iter luctantes ambitionis,

    struggling to press through the narrow way of ambition, Lucr. 5, 1132:

    me ambitio quaedam ad honorum studium duxit,

    Cic. Att. 1, 17:

    Miserrima omnino est ambitio honorumque contentio,

    id. Off. 1, 25:

    a quo incepto studioque me ambitio mala detinuerat,

    Sall. C. 4, 2:

    aut ab avaritiā aut miserā ambitione laborat,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 26:

    Vitā solutorum miserā ambitione gravique,

    id. ib. 1, 6, 129; so id. ib. 2, 3, 78;

    2, 6, 18: inanis,

    id. Ep. 2, 2, 207:

    levis,

    Ov. F. 1, 103 al.:

    licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, tamen frequenter causa virtutum est,

    Quint. 1, 2, 22:

    perversa,

    id. 10, 7, 20:

    funerum nulla ambitio,

    no display, pomp, Tac. G. 27.—
    C.
    Great exertion:

    cum admitti magnā ambitione aegre obtinuisset,

    Just. 1, 3.—
    D.
    That which surrounds (v. ambio, 2.;

    postclass. for ambitus): vimineos alveos circumdant ambitione tergorum bubulorum,

    with a wrapping of cowhide, Sol. 22:

    fuliginem ambitio extimae cutis cohibet,

    id. 35: ita assedimus, ut me ex tribus medium lateris ambitione protegerent, Min. Oct. 4.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > ambitio

  • 4 ambitiō

        ambitiō ōnis, f    [ambio], a going about.— Esp., of candidates for office, the soliciting of votes (by lawful means): mea me ambitio cogitatione abstrahebat: tanta exarsit ambitio, ut, etc., L.: Quid de nostris ambitionibus loquer? — A striving for favor, courting, flattery, adulation: ambitione adducti: in Scipione ambitio maior, vita tristior: Platonem magnā ambitione perduxit, ostentatiously, N.: ambitione relegatā, without flattery, H.: ius sibi per ambitionem dictum, favoritism, L.—A desire for honor, thirst for popularity: ambitio honorumque contentio: mala, S.: miserā, H.: inanis, H.: funerum, pomp, Ta.
    * * *
    ambition; desire for/currying favor/popularity, flattery; vote canvassing; pomp

    Latin-English dictionary > ambitiō

  • 5 prēnsātiō

        prēnsātiō ōnis, f    [prenso], a soliciting, canvassing (for office): praepropera.

    Latin-English dictionary > prēnsātiō

  • 6 repulsa

    rĕpulsa, ae, f. [repello; prop. Part., sc. petitio]; publicists' t. t., a refusal, denial, repulse in soliciting for an office:

    Catonem veteres inimicitiae Caesaris incitant et dolor repulsae,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 4:

    omnes magistratus sine repulsā assequi,

    Cic. Pis. 1, 2; cf.:

    qui sine repulsā consules facti sunt,

    id. Agr. 2, 2, 3; so,

    sine repulsā,

    id. Planc. 21, 51;

    and, on the other hand: Laelii unum consulatum fuisse cum repulsā,

    id. Tusc. 5, 19, 54: repulsam ferre, to be rejected, to lose one ' s election, id. de Or. 2, 69, 280; so (the class. technical phrase) id. Phil. 11, 8, 19; id. Att. 5, 19, 3 al.; cf.: [p. 1574] a populo repulsam ferre, id. Tusc. 5, 19, 54:

    repulsam referre,

    id. Off. 1, 39, 138; cf.:

    Mamerco praetermissio aedilitatis consulatus repulsam attulit,

    id. ib. 2, 17, 58:

    repulsam consulatūs pati,

    Pac. Pan. Theod. 12:

    nunciatā fratris repulsā in consulatus petitione,

    Plin. 7, 36, 36, § 122:

    turpis repulsa,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 43:

    virtus, repulsae nescia sordidae,

    id. C. 3, 2, 17:

    repulsam solari,

    Tac. A. 2, 36:

    repulsā notatus,

    Val. Max. 7, 5, 1.—In plur.:

    quid ego aedilicias repulsas colligo?

    Cic. Planc. 21, 52 (cf. shortly before:

    C. Marius duabus aedilitatibus repulsus): videntur offensionum et repulsarum quasi quandam ignominiam timere et infamiam,

    id. Off. 1, 21, 71:

    nobis reliquere pericula, repulsas, judicia, egestatem,

    Sall. C. 20, 8.—
    II.
    Transf., in gen., a rejection, denial, refusal, repulse (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

    Echedemus fatigatos tot repulsis Aetolos ad spem revocavit,

    Liv. 37, 7, 4: posce aliquid;

    nullam patiere repulsam,

    Ov. M. 2, 97: elige;

    nullam patiere repulsam,

    id. ib. 3, 289; cf.:

    sint tua vota secura repulsae,

    id. ib. 12, 199:

    amor crescit dolore repulsae,

    id. ib. 3, 395; cf.

    Veneris,

    id. ib. 14, 42:

    longae nulla repulsa morae,

    no repulse caused by long delays, Prop. 3, 14 (4, 13), 26:

    in hanc (tristitiam) omnis ira post repulsam revolvitur,

    Sen. Ira, 2, 6, 2:

    indignatio repulsae,

    App. M. 10, p. 255, 35.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > repulsa

  • 7 solicit

    [səʹlısıt] v
    1. настойчиво просить; ходатайствовать

    to solicit the government for money [for orders, for support] - ходатайствовать перед правительством о предоставлении ссуды [о заказах, об оказании помощи]

    to solicit (for) subscriptions [contributions] - собирать подписку [пожертвования]

    2. 1) выпрашивать, умолять

    to solicit help - взывать /умолять/ о помощи

    to solicit smb. for alms - выпрашивать у кого-л. подаяние

    2) добиваться, домогаться

    to solicit smb.'s hand [an office] - домогаться чьей-л. руки [должности]

    to solicit smb.'s sympathy - добиваться чьего-л. сочувствия

    the candidate solicited their votes - кандидат убеждал их голосовать за него

    3) приставать к мужчинам ( о проститутках)

    she was accused of soliciting (in public places) - её обвиняли в том, что она приставала к мужчинам (на улице)

    3. отстаивать, защищать; агитировать

    to solicit for one's cause [views] - отстаивать своё дело [свои взгляды]

    4. 1) подстрекать
    2) юр. подстрекать к совершению преступления
    5. юр.
    1) вести дело
    2) практиковать в качестве адвоката

    НБАРС > solicit

  • 8 prensatio

    prensātĭo, ōnis, f. [prenso; v. prehenso], a soliciting, suing, canvassing for an office:

    praepropera prensatio,

    Cic. Att. 1, 1, 1.

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