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 allocutions expressed on medals by the abbreviation ADLOCUT. COH.—The general is sometimes represented as seated on a tribunal, often on a bank or mound of turf, with the cohorts ranged orderly round him, in manipuli and turmae. The usual formula in allocutions was, Fortis effect ac fidus.