Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

I.to encourage, urge, exhort one to a thing, constr. with ad, in, de, or absol.: “nam me meae vitae consuetudo ad C. Rabirium defendendum est adhortata,” Cic. Rab. Perd. 1: “ne posset aliquando ad bellum faciendum locus ipse adhortari,” id. Off. 1, 11, 35: “aliquem ad certam laudem,” id. Fam. 1, 7: “loricatos ad discumbendum,” Suet. Calig. 45: “in bellum,” Tac. H. 3, 61: “in ultionem sui,” Suet. Ner. 41: “de re frumentaria Boios atque Aeduos adhortari non destitit,” he did not cease to incite and spur on the Boii and Aedui, in respect to a supply of corn, Caes. B. G. 7, 17.—Absol.: “milites,” Cic. Phil. 4, 5: “nullo adhortante sibi quisque dux et instigator,” Tac. H. 1, 38.—Followed by ut, ne, or the simple subj.: “adhort. adulescentes, ut turbulenti velint esse,” Cic. Phil. 1, 9: “tandem Bruto adhortante, ne jamdudum operientes destitueret,” Suet. Caes. 81: “adhortor, properent,” Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 35: adhortari se, to rouse or bestir one's self: ferus ipse (leo) sese adhortans rapidum incitat animo, Catull. 63, 85.!*? Pass.: adulati erant ab amicis et adhortati, Cassius ap. Prisc. 791 P.: punctione aliqua adhortati vel titillati, Cael. Aurel. Acut. 2, 3.