I.v. dep. a. (act.: “exhortavit,” Petr. 76, 10; pass.: “exhortantur,” August. Ep. 228: “exhortatus est,” App. de Deo Soc. 1, 7), to exhort, encourage (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
I. Prop.: “trepidosque obitumque timentes,” Ov. M. 15, 152; cf.: “trepidos cives in hostem,” id. ib. 13, 234: “tauros in illum,” id. ib. 7, 35: “se in ambos,” id. ib. 10, 685: “sese in arma,” Verg. A. 7, 472; cf. Quint. 10, 7, 19: “Graeco sermone ad spem,” Val. Max. 5, 1, 8: “milites ad ultionem,” Plin. 2, 107, 111, § 241.—With ut, Quint. 12, 8, 7; Petr. 140; Tac. Or. 14; cf. with simple subj.: “juvenes nostros exhortatus es, consulatum circumirent,” Plin. Pan. 69, 2.—With inf.: “semetipsos hortantur vel aliquas partes earum addiscere,” Col. 11, 1, 11.—Absol.: “in alloquendo exhortandoque,” Suet. Caes. 33.—
II. Transf., with abstr. objects, to stimulate, excite any thing: “virtutes exhortabor,” Sen. Ep. 121, 4: “parsimoniam,” Gell. 13, 23, 2; cf.: “haec exhortare,” Vulg. Tit. 2, 15.
