implorare aliquem or aliquid (to pray for help with tears and supplication): supplicare alicui: se alicui supplicem abjicere (to implore passionately; falling, as it were, at his knees, wringing one’s hands, etc., humbly before anyone, with the consciousness of his great dignity and power, and of one’s own great need): obsecrare aliquem (to implore anybody urgently; beseeching him in the name of God, by everything that is sacred): obtestari aliquem (to implore anybody suppliantly, calling upon God as witness; to implore by everything that is dear to him). To implore anybody for anything, voce supplici postulare aliquid; orare multis et supplicibus verbis ut, etc.: exposcere aliquid ab aliquo (of earnest, vehement appeals): to implore help from anybody, aliquem ad or in auxilium implorare; auxilium implorare ab aliquo: to implore the gods for victory, exposcere ab diis victoriam: to implore an end of the pestilence, finem pestilentiae exposcere: to implore the mercy of the gods, exposcere pacem deorum (Justinus, 18, 6): to implore gods and men, deum atque hominum fidem implorare: to implore assistance from a judge, opem petere a judice: humbly to implore anybody, submisse supplicare alicui: to prostrate one’s self at anybody’s feet, and implore him in the humblest terms, prosternere se, et fracto atque humili animo supplicare alicui: the gods were implored, precibus a diis petitum est.