persuasio Latin · revision 32395

+ It is persuasion to a course of action and the act of making someone believe something: Cicero defines the orator's task as speaking suitably for persuasion.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Quintilian uses it of persuasiveness.^(OLD 2012) From Seneca on it is also the result, a firm belief or conviction: Seneca writes of overturning a wrong conviction of the mind, and Tacitus of a popular belief that the shapes of horses can be seen.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL finds it in prose in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', in Cicero's ''De inventione'' and in Seneca and later writers, and in verse only in Prudentius and Marius Victor.^(TLL) In Church Latin it is conviction, belief or doctrine.^(Stelten 1995)