protreptĭcon

i, n.
I. an exhortation, a hortatory or protreptical discourse, Treb. Pol. 2; Stat. S. 5, 2 in lemm.; Aus. Idyll. 4 praef.; Sid. Ep. 1, 25.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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