persuade Copy link Outline 1. persuādeo, si, sum, 2 (to bring over to one's way of thinking; with dat.2. addūco, 33. impello, 3 (to urge) • persuade: 1. persuādeo, si, sum, 2 (to bring over to one's way of thinking; with dat.: foll. by ut [ne] and subj., when it signifies to p. any one to do or not to do something; by acc. and inf., when it signifies to convince): he p.s him to go over to the enemy, huic persuadet uti ad hostes transeat, Caes. B. G. 3, 18: ut is sometimes omitted before subj.: Albinus p.s him to claim ..., huic Albinus p. ..., petat, Sall. Jug. 35 (the acc. and inf. in this sense is exceptional. it occurs however, Nep. Dion. 3, persuasit ei tyrannidis finem facere): I could never be p.d that the soul ... dies, mihi nunquam persuaderi potuit animos ... emori, Cic. Sen. 22, 80: Caes.: I am p.d, mihi persuadeo, mihi persuadetur: v. to convince. (N.B.--Though not capable of taking an ordinary acc. of the object, persuadeo is often used with acc. of neut. pron.: to p. any one of this, hoc alicui p., Cic. Att. 16, 5: see L. G. § 253.) 2. addūco, 3: more fully, foll. by ad credendum [ut credam], Nep. Con. 3: also absol., I cannot p. myself that any one ..., ego non adducor quenquam, etc., Cic. Att. 11, 16 (infreq.): v. to induce. 3. impello, 3 (to urge): Sall. Cat. 49 (foll. by ut). (Suadeo = to try to persuade: v. to advise, urge.)