I.a counselling, advice, exhortation, suasion, persuasion.
I. In gen., Sen. Ep. 95, 65.—Plur.: “omni suasionum admonitionumque genere utens,” Gell. 10, 19, 4.—
II. In partic.
A. In publicists' lang., a recommending, advocacy of a proposed law: “suasio legis Serviliae,” Cic. Clu. 51, 140.—
B. In rhetoric, the suasory species of eloquence, Cic. Or. 11, 37: “praecepta dare de suasionibus,” id. de Or. 2, 81, 333.