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I. an earnest request or demand, importunity (rare but class.): nolui deesse ne tacitae quidem flagitationi tuae, * Cic. Top. 1, 5: uxorum flagitatione revocantur, Just. 2, 4.—In plur.: crebrae populi flagitationes, Tac. A. 13, 50.