suadela

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

suādēla (less correctly suādella), ae, f. [suadeo].

I Exhortation , suasion , persuasion (ante- and post-class.): jam perducebam illam ad me suadela mea, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 24: suadela depravata, Ap. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 28, 15.— Plur. : his et hujusmodi suadelis, etc., Ap. Met. 9, 18, 17.—

II Suadela, personified, the goddess of Persuasion , the Gr. Πειθώ, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 38.

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