I.an exhorting, inciting; exhortation, encouragement (rare, but in good prose): “militum,” Nep. Hann. 11, 1: “legionis,” Caes. B. G. 2, 25: “Caesaris, Auct. B. Alex. 22: ducis,” Tac. A. 14, 30: “judicum,” Cic. Clu. 50, 138: “incredibiliter me commovet tua cohortatio,” id. Att. 16, 13, C, 2; so id. Fam. 1, 7, 9; id. de Or. 1, 47, 204: “his cohortationibus,” id. ib. 1, 61, 262.
cŏhortātĭo , ōnis, f. cohortor,