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1. 애원하다, 간청하다, 탄원하다, 빌다, 요청하다

1. I beseech, beg, pray, entreat.
2. I wish well or ill (to someone); I greet with a wish.

예문

• TRAIANUS PLINIO Agnosco vota tua, mi Secunde carissime, quibus precaris, ut plurimos et felicissimos natales florente statu rei publicae nostrae agam. (Pliny the Younger, Letters, book 10, letter 89 92:1)

  (소 플리니우스, 편지들, 10권, 92:1)

• Qui nunc, ut memorant, silvestribus abditus antris saxa moves gemitu Laertiadaeque precaris quae meruit: (P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, Book 13 7:3)

  (푸블리우스 오비디우스 나소, 변신 이야기, Book 13권 7:3)

• quae, si di sunt, non vana precaris! (P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, Book 13 7:4)

  (푸블리우스 오비디우스 나소, 변신 이야기, Book 13권 7:4)

• "venerem precaris, conprecare et simiam." (Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber, Sancti Romani Martyris contra Gentiles Dicta.1 10:100)

  (프루덴티우스, , 10:100)

• tam perdis operam cum illi irasceris, quam cum illum alteri precaris iratum. (Seneca, Liber II ad Novatum: de ira, Liber II 164:5)

  (세네카, 노여움에 대하여, 164:5)

유의어 사전

1. Rogare and orare denote simply a request as the quiet utterance of a wish; but the rogans (ὀργᾶν, ὀρέγεσθαι) feels himself al pari, on a par with the person whom he asks, and asks only a courtesy, like αἰτεῖν; the orans acknowledges the superiority of the other, and asks a benefit, like δεῖσθαι; whereas obsecrare and obtestari denote a passionate asking, as to conjure; but the obsecrans asks urgently, like λιπαρεῖν; the obtestans (from θέσσασθαι) in a suppliant manner. Cic. Att. xvi. 10. Igitur, mi Plance, rogo te atque etiam oro. Pseudocic. p. Red. 16. Pro mea vos salute non rogavit solum, verum etiam obsecravit. 2. Precari denotes the calm act of prayer, in which one raises one’s hand to heaven, like εύχεσθαι; but supplicare denotes the passionate act of supplication, in which one throws one’s self on one’s knees, or on the ground, and wrings one’s hands, like ἱκετεύειν. By hyperbole, however, precor denotes any urgent request; supplicare, any humble request, addressed to a human being. Cic. Parad. v. 3. Noctu venire domum ad eum, precari, denique supplicare. (v. 232.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein