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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

• si qua tamen gravida est, resoluto crine precetur, ut solvat partus molliter illa suos. (P. Ovidius Naso, Fasti, book 3 3:136)

  (푸블리우스 오비디우스 나소, 행사력, 3권 3:136)

• ille bonis faveatque et consilietur amice et regat iratos et amet pacare tumentis, ille dapes laudet mensae brevis, ille salubrem iustitiam legesque et apertis otia portis, ille tegat conmissa Deosque precetur et oret, ut redeat miseris, abeat fortuna superbis. (Q. Horatius Flaccus, De Arte Poetica liber 7:4)

  (퀸투스 호라티우스 플라쿠스, 7:4)

• Si quis viderit hanc faciem altiorem fulgentioremque quam cerni inter humana consuevit, nonne velut numinis occursu obstupefactus resistat et, ut " fas sit vidisse," tacitus precetur ? (Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, book 19, letter 115 4:1)

  (세네카, , , 4:1)

• illa faciat uota, precetur: (Seneca, Controversiae, book 7, Thema: Mortua quidam uxore ex qua duos filios habebat, duxit aliam. alterum ex adulescentibus domi parricidi damnauit; tradidit fratri puniendum: ille exarmato nauigio imposuit. delatus est adulescens ad piratas, arcipirata factus est. Postea pater peregre 14:16)

  (세네카, , , 14:16)

• ut de precetur, ut supplicet, ut medeatur; (Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Liber IX 45:14)

  (퀸틸리아누스, 변론 가정 교육, 45:14)

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