suāsĭo, ōnis, f. [suadeo], 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.