SUE Copy link • SUETo request, pray for, rogare, orare aliquem aliquid: flagitare: efflagitare aliquid ab aliquo (with eagerness and impetuosity). To sue the gods, precari a diis; precatione uti; precationem ad deos facere: to sue humbly anything from anybody, supplicare alicui pro re; petere, postulare suppliciter aliquid ab aliquo; orare aliquem supplicibus verbis; orare or rogare aliquem suppliciter: to sue importunately and almost with tears, omnibus precibus, paene lacrimis etiam obsecrare aliquem: to sue in the most earnest manner, aliquem ita rogare, ut majore studio rogare non possim: to sue for votes, ambire; prensare (absolutely; i. e., to go about soliciting votes, to shake hands, etc.: ☞ ambire honores, etc., is not Latin). At law, lege agere cum aliquo (☞ not in aliquem) alicujus rei or de re; legibus experiri de re; aliquem in jus vocare. Vid: “to bring an ACTION. “