dissuadere aliquid or de aliqua re: dissuasorem alicujus rei esse: dehortari aliquem a or de re, or with ne, quin, quominus (Vid: Zumpt, § 534): abducere: deducere: avertere: abstrahere (aliquem a re, are stronger terms; to turn anybody from a purpose): non censere aliquid faciendum esse (especially of a member of a deliberative body): to dissuade from an opinion, aliquem de aententia deducere, demovere: from a plan, project, from what anybody has taken into his head, aliquem a consilio revocare: not to allow one’s self to be dissuaded, perstare in aliqua re (to persist in anything); that does not suffer himself to be dissuaded, firmus proposito (Velleius, 2, 63): to dissuade anybody from a thing, dissuadere, ne aliquis faciat aliquid, or simply dissuadere aliquid or de aliqua re (☞ but never dissuadere alicui aliquid, which we do not find before Sen., Herc., oet., 929); avocare aliquem ab aliqua re (to endeavor to turn anybody from doing anything): to dissuade (or oppose one’s self to) the passing of a bill, dissuadere, ne legem accipiant: to dissuade them from setting the prisoners free, dissuadere de captivis; captivos remittendos non censere; captivos retinendos censere.