encouraging Copy link • encouraging: laetus: an e. augury, l. augurium, Tac. 1, 62 (v. auspicious): an e. letter, l. literae, Cic. Att. 3, 16: everything has become more e. these last two days, omnia erant facta hoc biduo laetiora, Cic. Att. 7, 26, init.: e. exhortations, l. hortatūs, Val. Fl. (Or expr. by circuml.: how e. are all these circumstances, *quam sunt spei plena haec omnia, quam apta sunt ad animos nobis confirmandos, erigendos: v. to encourage.)