I.v. dep. a.: aliquem, to speak to, to address, esp. used in greeting, admonishing, consoling. etc.; hence also, to salute; to exhort, rouse; to console (cf. in Gr. παραμυθέομαι; in the ante-class. and class. per. rare; in Cic. only twice; more freq. from the time of the Aug. poets).
I. To speak to, to address: quem ore funesto adloquar? Att. ap. Non. 281, 6: “admones et adloqueris,” Vulg. Sap. 12, 2: “hominem blande adloqui,” Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 22; so id. And. 2, 2, 6: “quem nemo adloqui vellet,” Cic. Clu. 61; so Auct. ad Her. 4, 15, 22; Ov. M. 15, 22; 8, 728; 11, 283; 13, 739; Verg. A. 6, 466 al.: “senatum, compositā in magnificentiam oratione, adlocutus,” Tac. H. 3, 37; so id. A. 16, 91; id. Agr. 35: “adlocutus est (eis) linguā Hebraeā,” Vulg. Act. 21, 40; 28, 20.—
II. Esp.
A. To address the gods in thanksgiving and prayer: “dis gratias agere atque adloqui,” Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 26; 1, 1, 232; so, “patriam adlocuta maestast ita voce miseriter,” Cat. 63, 49.—
B. To address, as a general his troops, to exhort, to rouse: “quae ubi consul accepit, sibimetipsi circumeundos adloquendosque milites ratus, Liv, 10, 35: (Alexander) variā oratione milites adloquebatur,” Curt. 3, 10, 4: “neque milites adlocuturo etc.,” Suet. Galb. 18; id. Caes. 33. —
