ADLOCUTION, ADLOCUTIO, in antiquity, is chiefly understood of speeches made by Roman generals to their armies, to encourage them before a battle. We frequently find these adlocutions expressed on medals by the abbreviation ADLOCUT. CON.—The general is sometimes represented as seated on a tribunal, often on a bank or mount of turf, with the cohorts ranged orderly round him, in manipuli and turmæ. The usual formula in adlocutions was, Fortis esset ac fidus.