CITE Copy link • CITEbefore a court, citure in jus, or in judicium vocare: evocare (general term for to summon an absent person). Quote, proferre: afferre [not producere; and it is better to avoid adducere, for which Sen., De Ir., 2, 16, 2, is the only passage cited, ea animalia in exemplum hominis adducit, quibus, etc. Krebs allows citare with or without testes or auctores. Liv. has magistratuum libros Macer Licinius citat identidem auctores]: laudare (to cite with approbation): notare (with censure): memorare: commemorare: ponere: proponere (of examples): to cite as authority, auctorem laudare, or memorare (Cic.), or citare (Liv.): to cite as a witness, testem proferre, producere or (with praise) laudare: a passage, locum afferre: dictum scriptoris commemorare, referre (often, habitually): usurpare: I like better to cite examples from Grecian history than from our own, malo Graecorum quam nostra proferre: I will cite this one example, ponam illud unum exemplum.