I.inf. pres. pass. flagitarier, Plaut. Men. prol. 48), v. freq. a. [from the root bherag-; Sanscr. bhraj-, to roast; Zend. berja, earnest longing; cf. Gr. φρύγω; Lat. frīgĕre, frictum, Fick, Vergl. Wört. p. 141 sq.; cf. Gr. φλέγω; Lat. flagrare, etc., Corss. Ausspr. 1, 398; Doed. Syn. 2, p. 143), to demand any thing fiercely or violently, to entreat, solicit a thing; or, with a personal object, to press earnestly, importune, dun a person for any thing (qs. flagranter posco, exigo, rogo; cf. also: postulo, peto, etc.).
I. In gen. (class.); constr., aliquid aliquem; aliquid (aliquem) ab aliquo or aliquem; with ut or absol.; poet. with an objectclause.
(α).
With acc.: “etiam atque etiam insto atque urgeo, insector, posco, atque adeo flagito crimen,” Cic. Planc. 19, 48; cf.: “insector, inquam et flagito testes,” id. Font. 1, 1; and: “qui reliquos non desideraret solum, sed etiam posceret et flagitaret,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 28, § 71: “ut admoneam te, non ut flagitem: metuo ne te forte flagitent: ego autem mandavi, ut rogarent,” id. Fam. 9, 8, 1; cf.: “admonitum venimus te, non flagitatum,” id. de Or. 3, 5, 17: “consulis auxilium implorare et flagitare,” id. Rab. Perd. 3, 9: “ea, quae tempus et necessitas flagitat,” id. Phil. 5, 19 fin.—In pass.: “quia illum clamore vidi flagitarier,” called for by the public crier, Plaut. Men. prol. 48; “but, si non dabis, clamore magno et multo flagitabere,” you shall be importuned, id. Ps. 1, 5, 143; 4, 7, 46: “ne ejus sceleris in te ipsum quaestio flagitaretur,” Cic. Vatin. 11, 26: cum stipendium ab legionibus paene seditione factā flagitaretur, when the legions demanded their pay (the ab different from the foll.), Caes. B. C. 1, 87, 3: “populus desiderio Romuli regem flagitare non destitit,” Cic. Rep. 2, 12.—With acc. and ab and abl.: “a te cum tua promissa per litteras flagitabam,” Cic. Fam. 3, 11, 4: “mercedem gloriae flagitat ab iis, quorum, etc.,” id. Tusc. 1, 15, 34: “quid gravitas, quid altitudo animi... quid artes a te flagitent, tu videbis,” id. Fam. 4, 13, 4: “id ex omnibus partibus ab eo flagitabatur,” Caes. B. G. 1, 71, 1: “unicum miser abs te filium flagitat,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 49, § 128: “siser et ipsum Tiberius princeps nobilitavit flagitans omnibus annis a Germania,” Plin. 18, 5, 28, § 90.—With two acc.: “haec sunt illa, quae me ludens Crassus modo flagitabat,” Cic. de Or. 2, 45, 188; cf. id. Planc. 2, 6: “quotidie Caesar Aeduos frumentum flagitare,” Caes. B. G. 1, 16, 1: “nec potentem amicum Largiora flagito,” Hor. C. 2, 18, 13.—
(β).
With ut: “semper flagitavi, ut convocaremur,” Cic. Phil. 5, 11, 30: “flagitare senatus institit Cornutum, ut, etc.,” id. Fam. 10, 16, 1: “flagitabatur ab his quotidie ut, etc.,” id. Sest. 11, 25.—
(γ).
Absol.: “sed flagitat tabellarius: valebis igitur, etc.,” presses, id. Fam. 15, 18 fin.: “causa postulat, non flagitat,” id. Quint. 3, 13.—
(δ).
With inf.: “(stomachus) pernā magis ac magis hillis Flagitat immorsus refici,” Hor. S. 2, 4, 61.—（ε) With acc. and inf.: “a delatoribus revocanda praemia,” Suet. Ner. 44; cf. id. Claud. 13; Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 62; 35, 10, 36, § 65.—（ζ) With interrog. clause: “quae sint ea numina flagitat,” Verg. A. 2, 123.—
II. In partic.
A. To summon before court, to accuse: “compertum pecuniam publicam avertisse ut peculatorem flagitari jussit,” Tac. H. 1, 53.—
