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principem in re publica locum obtinereto hold the first position in the state.Rate it:
principes or primoresthe aristocracy (as a leading class in government).Rate it:
principes rem publicam administrantes or simply principesstatesmen.Rate it:
prisca, obsoleta (opp. usitata), ambigua verbaobsolete, ambiguous expressions.Rate it:
pro aris et focis pugnare, certare, dimicareto fight for hearth and home.Rate it:
pro consule in Ciliciam proficiscito go to Cilicia as pro-consul.Rate it:
pro lege dicereto support a bill (before the people).Rate it:
pro maleficiis beneficia reddereto return good for evil.Rate it:
pro re (nata), pro temporeaccording to circumstances.Rate it:
pro tempore et pro reaccording to circumstances.Rate it:
pro testimonio dicereto state as evidence.Rate it:
pro victimis homines immolareto sacrifice human victims.Rate it:
pro viribus eniti et laborare, utto strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter.Rate it:
pro viribus or pro mea parteas well as I can; to the best of my ability.Rate it:
pro virili parte (cf. sect. V. 22.)as well as I can; to the best of my ability.Rate it:
probabilia coniectura sequito try to conjecture probabilities.Rate it:
probe scio, non ignoroI know very well.Rate it:
procedere cum exercituto advance with the army.Rate it:
procella (tempestas) aliquem ex alto ad ignotas terras (oras) defertthe storm drives some one on an unknown coast.Rate it:
prodigia procurare (Liv. 22. 1)to avert by expiatory sacrifices the effect of ominous portents.Rate it:
proeliis secundis utito fight successfully.Rate it:
proelio (ad pugnam) hostes lacessere, provocareto provoke the enemy to battle.Rate it:
proelio concurritur (Sall. Iug. 59)the lines charge in battle one on another.Rate it:
proelio equestri contendereto give battle with a cavalry-division.Rate it:
proelio interesseto take part in the engagement.Rate it:
proelio vincereto gain a victory, win a battle.Rate it:
proelio vinci, superari, inferiorem, victum discedereto be defeated in fight, lose the battle.Rate it:
proelio, armis decertare (B. G. 1. 50)to fight a decisive battle.Rate it:
proelium anceps estthe issue of the battle is undecided.Rate it:
proelium committere(1) to begin the battle, (2) to give battle.Rate it:
proelium cruentum, atroxa bloody battle.Rate it:
proelium deserereto give up the fight.Rate it:
proelium dirimere (B. C. 1. 40)to break off the fight.Rate it:
proelium equestre facereto give battle with a cavalry-division.Rate it:
proelium facereto give battle.Rate it:
proelium facere secundumto fight successfully.Rate it:
proelium inire (Liv. 2. 14)to engage.Rate it:
proelium intermittereto interrupt the battle.Rate it:
proelium iustum (opp. tumultuarium)a pitched battle.Rate it:
proelium renovare, redintegrareto begin the fight again.Rate it:
proelium restituereto renew the battle with success.Rate it:
proficisci ad bellum, in expeditionem (Sall. Iug. 103)to go to war, commence a campaign.Rate it:
proiici inhumatum (in publicum)to be cast out unburied.Rate it:
promisso stareto abide by one's undertaking.Rate it:
promittere (ad cenam) (Off. 3. 14. 58)to accept an invitiation to dinner.Rate it:
promittere ad aliquemto promise to dine with a person.Rate it:
promittere crinem, barbamto grow one's hair, beard long.Rate it:
promunturium in mare procurrita promontory juts out into the sea.Rate it:
promunturium superareto double a cape.Rate it:
pronuntiatio c. Gen.artistic delivery; declamation.Rate it:

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