ADLOCUTIO, in Antiquity, is chiefly understood of speeches made by Roman generals to their armies, to encourage them before a battle. We frequently find those adlocutions expressed on medals by the abbreviation ADLOCUT. CON.—The general is sometimes represented as seated on a tribunal, often on a bank or mound of turf, with the cohorts ranged in order around him, in manipuli et turmae. The usual formula in adlocutions was,

Fortis esset ae fidus.