suāsĭo
ōnis, f.
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.