ASK Copy link • ASKinterrogare, rogare aliquem, or (less frequently) de aliquo: anybody about anything, aliquem aliquid (or less commonly de re: both general terms, to ask for the purpose of getting an answer from anybody, or learning his opinion): sciscitari ex aliquo (to ask urgently; often from curiosity, with inquisitiveness, eagerness, or in an artful manner): quaerere, exquirere, requirere ex or ab aliquo (to ask connectedly and accurately, to question for the purpose of arriving at certainty. Quaerere is the proper word of a judge questioning an accused person): percunctari de or ex aliquo (to desire to know everything exactly: hence the proper wordfor asking the price of goods, v. Gell., 9, 4, p. near the beginning: whether, utrum; if or whether anything, ecquid or quid, not si quid). To ask in a captious manner, captiose interrogare: to ask anybody for advice, consulere aliquem: to ask one’s way, rogare viam (†); exquirere iter. I had no occasion to ask that, hoc mihi non fuit quaerendum. Request: rogare: petere (general term for asking, whether as a request or a demand; in the middle, therefore, between poscere and orare, but somewhat nearer to a request: petere mostly refers to the object, rogare to the person: hence petere aliquid ab aliquo: rogare aliquem aliquid.) To ask almost with tears, omnibus precibus, paene lacrimis etiam obsecrare aliquem: to ask anybody’s life, petere vitam (innocenti): to ask anything as a matter of right, aliquid jure quodam suo postulare. To be able to ask anything as (a matter of) right, aliquid jure quodam suo postulare posse: justam postulandi causam habere. Invite: invitare: vocare: to dinner, aliquem ad cenam vocare or invitare: to one’s house, aliquem domum suam invitare. Demand such a price: indicare (opposed to promittere, to offer so much). To ask 100 sesterces, indicare centum numis (or nummis). Require: poscere: postulare: flagitare. Mostly by genitive or adjective with esse: this asks prudence, est prudentis [causa, res, tempus poscit; cum res postulabit: quaetempus et necessitas flagitat). To ask pardon, Vid: PARDON. To ask leave, veniam petere.