allege an excuse/reason, object; excuse oneself
Latin word, found 54 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Eclogues 9.56: Causando nostros in longum ducis amores:
Ovid, Amores 1.9.13: Nec freta pressurus tumidos causabitur Euros
Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.427: Si non esse domi, quos des, causabere nummos,
All forms of causor