SOLICIT Copy link • SOLICITTo seek for, ask, petere: expetere (to petition for): quaerere (to seek with pains and exertion): consectari (to pursue zealously): captare, aucupari (to snatch eagerly at anything; all these with an accusative). To solicit the favor of the people, auram popularem captare; gratiam ad populum quaerere: one who solicits (for an office), petitor; candidatus [Vid: CANDIDATE]. The act of soliciting, petitio: ambitio (canvassing): prensatio (taking voters by the hand, in order to gain their favor): ambitus (by unlawful means; whereas ambitio, in the best age, was only by lawful means). To attempt anybody’s mind, sollicitare aliquem or alicujus animum (e.g., pretio, pecunia): pellicere aliquem.