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|lshtext=<b>agmĕn</b>: ĭnis, n. as if contr. from agimen, from [[ago]]; cf.: [[tegimen]], [[tegmen]], from [[tego]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br /> <b>A</b> In gen., a [[train]], i. e. a [[collected]] [[multitude]] in [[motion]] or [[moving]] forwards; of things of [[any]] [[kind]], [[but]] esp. (so [[most]] freq. in [[prose]]) of men or animals. —Of streams of [[water]], [[motion]], [[course]], [[current]]: [[quod]] per amoenam urbem lent fluit agmine [[flumen]], Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4: [[inde]] [[super]] terras fluit agmine dulci, Lucr. 5, 272; cf. id. 6, 638; also, in [[imitation]] of Enn., Virg. and Val. Fl.: leni fluit agmine [[Thybris]], Verg. A. 2, 782; cf. Val. Fl. 4, 721.—Of a [[train]] or [[succession]] of clouds: [[denso]] sunt agmine [[nubes]], Lucr. 6, 100.—Of [[rain]]: immensum [[caelo]] venit [[agmen]] aquarum, [[body]], [[mass]], Verg. G. 1, 322 —Of atoms: agmine [[condenso]] naturam corporis explent, [[crowded]] [[into]] a [[compact]] [[mass]], Lucr. 1, 607.—Of oars: agmine re [[morum]] ceieri, [[with]] [[quick]] [[plashing]] of oars, Verg. A. 5, 211.—Of a [[flock]] of birds: agmi ne magno. Corvorum. Verg. G. 1, 381.—Of a [[snake]] [[winding]] onwards: cum medii [[nexus]] extremaeque agmina caudae Solvuntur, Verg. G. 3, 424; cf. id. A. 2, 212.—Of clouds of [[dust]] [[following]] [[any]] [[thing]] in [[rapid]] [[motion]], as men, animals, etc.: agmina cervi Pulverulenta, Verg. A. 4, 154.—And, as subst. concr., of birds [[turba]] Agminis aligeri, of the [[winged]] [[band]], Verg A. 12, 249.—Of ants; frugilegas aspeximus agmine longo formi cas, Ov. M 7, 624; so id. ib. 7, 638.—Of the stars: diffugiunt stellae; quarum agmina cogit Lucifer, Ov. M. 2, 114; so id. ib. 11, 97 al.—Eap. of a [[company]] of persons, a [[multitude]], [[troop]], [[crowd]], [[number]], [[band]]: ut a Brundisic nsque Romam [[agmen]] perpetuum totius Italiae viderem, Cic. Pis. 22: magno senatorum agmine, Tac. H. 3, 55: [[ingens]] mulierum [[agmen]], Liv. 2, 40: muliebre et miserabile [[agmen]], Tac. A. 1, 40: numerosum [[agmen]] reorum, Plin Ep. 3, 9, and Tac. H. 4, 6: Eumenidum agmina, Verg A. 4, 469.—But [[particularly]],<br /> <b>B</b> The [[train]], [[procession]], [[march]], [[progress]] of an [[army]]: de castris, de agminibus, etc., dicere, Cic. de Or. 1, 48, 210: ne [[miles]] [[gregarius]] in castris, [[neve]] in agmine servum aut jumentum haberet, Sall. J. 45, 2: pugnatum [[saepe]] directā acie, [[saepe]] in agminibus, [[saepe]] eruptionibus, Vell. 2, 47: effuso agmine abire, Liv. 44, 39: uno agmine victores cum victis in urbem irrupere, id. 2, 30; uno agmine persequentes, Vulg. Judith, 15, 4 al.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., concr., an [[army]], and [[properly]] considered as in [[motion]], on the [[march]] ([[while]] [[exercitus]] is a [[disciplined]] [[army]], and [[acies]] an [[army]] in [[battle]]-[[array]]) —As [[soon]] as the [[signal]] for marching [[was]] given, the Extraordinarii and the allies of the [[right]] [[wing]], [[with]] [[their]] [[baggage]], [[first]] [[put]] [[themselves]] in [[motion]], [[then]] the legions, and [[last]] the allies of the [[left]] [[wing]], [[with]] a [[part]] of the [[cavalry]], [[which]] [[either]] rode [[behind]] the [[army]], ad [[agmen]] claudendum or cogendum. to [[close]] the [[train]], i. e. to [[keep]] it to gether or on the [[side]] in [[such]] an [[order]] ([[composito]] agmine, non itineri [[magis]] [[apto]] [[quam]] [[proelio]]) [[that]] it [[might]] be [[easily]] [[put]] [[into]] the [[line]] of [[battle]], if the [[enemy]] ven tured to [[attack]] it; cf. Sall. J. 46, 6.—An [[army]] in [[close]] ranks [[was]] called [[agmen]] justum, Tac. H. 1, 68, or [[agmen]] pilatum, Serv. ad Verg. A. 12, 121—When [[there]] [[was]] no [[apprehension]] of the [[enemy]], [[less]] [[care]] [[was]] taken for the [[protection]] of the [[army]]: agmine incauto, i. e. [[minus]] [[munito]], ut [[inter]] pacatos, ducebat, sc. [[consul]], Liv. 35, 4.— The [[order]] of [[march]] [[was]], [[however]], [[different]], according to circumstances and the [[nature]] of the [[ground]], Liv. 35, 4; 27, 28; and cf. Smith's Antiq.—Sometimes the [[army]] marched in the form of a [[square]], [[agmen]] [[quadratum]], [[with]] [[their]] [[baggage]] in the [[middle]], so as to be in [[battle]]-[[array]] on [[meeting]] the [[enemy]]; [[hence]] [[agmen]] [[quadratum]] [[often]] [[means]] the [[same]] as [[acies]] [[triplex]], an [[army]] formed in [[line]] of [[battle]], [[only]] [[that]] the [[former]] indicates [[that]] [[they]] are on the [[march]], and the [[latter]] [[that]] [[they]] are at [[rest]].—Hence, [[like]] [[acies]], [[with]] the epithet [[primum]], the [[vanguard]], Liv. 34, 28; Tac. Agr. 35: [[medium]], the [[centre]], Liv. 10, 41; Tac. H. 4, 22: extremum, Liv. 34, 28; Tac. H. 2, 100; or, novissimum, the [[rear]], rearguard, Liv. 44, 33; so, extremi agminis, Vulg. Deut. 25, 18: ut [[inde]] agmine quadratc ad urbem accederet, marching in a [[square]], Cic. Phil. 13, 8: [[pariter]] [[atque]] in conspectu hostium quadrato agmine incedere, Sall. J 100, 1; cf. id. ib. 46, 6, 7: [[Hannibal]] agmine quadrato amnem [[ingressus]], Liv. 21, 5; se id. 31, 36; 37, 39: quadrato agmine [[velut]] in aciem irent, Curt. 5, 1, 19 al.—Sometimes, esp. in the poets in the plur., in gen. [[sense]], = [[exercitus]] or copiae, an [[army]], [[host]], [[troops]]: huic tanto agmini dux defuit, Just. 12, 10: occidit [[Daci]] Cotisonis [[agmen]], Hor. C. 3, 8, 18: agmina curru Proterit, Verg. A. 12, 329: barbarorum [[Claudius]] agmina diruit, Hor. C. 4, 14, 29; so id. S. 2, 1, 14; id. Epod. 17, 9; Ov. M. 3, 535; 5, 151, 161; 6, 423: Del agminum Israël, Vulg. 1 Reg. 17, 45: agmina ejus dispergam, ib. Ezech. 12, 14; 38, 6.—For [[military]] [[service]], [[warfare]]: [[rudis]] agminum Sponsus, Hor. C. 3, 2, 9.—<br /> <b>B</b> Trop.<br /> <b>1</b> An [[army]], [[troop]], [[band]], [[multitude]]: educenda [[dictio]] est ex hac domesticā exercitatione et umbratili [[medium]] in [[agmen]], in pulverem, in clamorem, in [[castra]], aciemque forensem, i. e. [[before]] the [[public]], Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 157: e Brundisio [[usque]] Romam [[agmen]] perpetuum totius Italiae, an [[unbroken]] [[train]], id. Pis. 22, 51: [[ingens]] mulierum [[agmen]], Liv. 2, 40; 9, 17: agmina Eumenidum, Verg. A. 4, 469; 6, 572: agmina comitum, Ov. Tr. 14, 30: in [[angusto]] [[fidus]] [[comes]] agmine turbae, Tib. 1, 5, 63: numerosum [[agmen]] reorum, Plin. Ep. 3, 9: [[agmen]] occupationum, an [[army]] of, id. ib. 2, 8.—<br /> <b>2</b> March, [[movement]]: agmina fati et volumina, Gell. 6, 2, 5. | |lshtext=<b>agmĕn</b>: ĭnis, n. as if contr. from agimen, from [[ago]]; cf.: [[tegimen]], [[tegmen]], from [[tego]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br /> <b>A</b> In gen., a [[train]], i. e. a [[collected]] [[multitude]] in [[motion]] or [[moving]] forwards; of things of [[any]] [[kind]], [[but]] esp. (so [[most]] freq. in [[prose]]) of men or animals. —Of streams of [[water]], [[motion]], [[course]], [[current]]: [[quod]] per amoenam urbem lent fluit agmine [[flumen]], Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4: [[inde]] [[super]] terras fluit agmine dulci, Lucr. 5, 272; cf. id. 6, 638; also, in [[imitation]] of Enn., Virg. and Val. Fl.: leni fluit agmine [[Thybris]], Verg. A. 2, 782; cf. Val. Fl. 4, 721.—Of a [[train]] or [[succession]] of clouds: [[denso]] sunt agmine [[nubes]], Lucr. 6, 100.—Of [[rain]]: immensum [[caelo]] venit [[agmen]] aquarum, [[body]], [[mass]], Verg. G. 1, 322 —Of atoms: agmine [[condenso]] naturam corporis explent, [[crowded]] [[into]] a [[compact]] [[mass]], Lucr. 1, 607.—Of oars: agmine re [[morum]] ceieri, [[with]] [[quick]] [[plashing]] of oars, Verg. A. 5, 211.—Of a [[flock]] of birds: agmi ne magno. Corvorum. Verg. G. 1, 381.—Of a [[snake]] [[winding]] onwards: cum medii [[nexus]] extremaeque agmina caudae Solvuntur, Verg. G. 3, 424; cf. id. A. 2, 212.—Of clouds of [[dust]] [[following]] [[any]] [[thing]] in [[rapid]] [[motion]], as men, animals, etc.: agmina cervi Pulverulenta, Verg. A. 4, 154.—And, as subst. concr., of birds [[turba]] Agminis aligeri, of the [[winged]] [[band]], Verg A. 12, 249.—Of ants; frugilegas aspeximus agmine longo formi cas, Ov. M 7, 624; so id. ib. 7, 638.—Of the stars: diffugiunt stellae; quarum agmina cogit Lucifer, Ov. M. 2, 114; so id. ib. 11, 97 al.—Eap. of a [[company]] of persons, a [[multitude]], [[troop]], [[crowd]], [[number]], [[band]]: ut a Brundisic nsque Romam [[agmen]] perpetuum totius Italiae viderem, Cic. Pis. 22: magno senatorum agmine, Tac. H. 3, 55: [[ingens]] mulierum [[agmen]], Liv. 2, 40: muliebre et miserabile [[agmen]], Tac. A. 1, 40: numerosum [[agmen]] reorum, Plin Ep. 3, 9, and Tac. H. 4, 6: Eumenidum agmina, Verg A. 4, 469.—But [[particularly]],<br /> <b>B</b> The [[train]], [[procession]], [[march]], [[progress]] of an [[army]]: de castris, de agminibus, etc., dicere, Cic. de Or. 1, 48, 210: ne [[miles]] [[gregarius]] in castris, [[neve]] in agmine servum aut jumentum haberet, Sall. J. 45, 2: pugnatum [[saepe]] directā acie, [[saepe]] in agminibus, [[saepe]] eruptionibus, Vell. 2, 47: effuso agmine abire, Liv. 44, 39: uno agmine victores cum victis in urbem irrupere, id. 2, 30; uno agmine persequentes, Vulg. Judith, 15, 4 al.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., concr., an [[army]], and [[properly]] considered as in [[motion]], on the [[march]] ([[while]] [[exercitus]] is a [[disciplined]] [[army]], and [[acies]] an [[army]] in [[battle]]-[[array]]) —As [[soon]] as the [[signal]] for marching [[was]] given, the Extraordinarii and the allies of the [[right]] [[wing]], [[with]] [[their]] [[baggage]], [[first]] [[put]] [[themselves]] in [[motion]], [[then]] the legions, and [[last]] the allies of the [[left]] [[wing]], [[with]] a [[part]] of the [[cavalry]], [[which]] [[either]] rode [[behind]] the [[army]], ad [[agmen]] claudendum or cogendum. to [[close]] the [[train]], i. e. to [[keep]] it to gether or on the [[side]] in [[such]] an [[order]] ([[composito]] agmine, non itineri [[magis]] [[apto]] [[quam]] [[proelio]]) [[that]] it [[might]] be [[easily]] [[put]] [[into]] the [[line]] of [[battle]], if the [[enemy]] ven tured to [[attack]] it; cf. Sall. J. 46, 6.—An [[army]] in [[close]] ranks [[was]] called [[agmen]] justum, Tac. H. 1, 68, or [[agmen]] pilatum, Serv. ad Verg. A. 12, 121—When [[there]] [[was]] no [[apprehension]] of the [[enemy]], [[less]] [[care]] [[was]] taken for the [[protection]] of the [[army]]: agmine incauto, i. e. [[minus]] [[munito]], ut [[inter]] pacatos, ducebat, sc. [[consul]], Liv. 35, 4.— The [[order]] of [[march]] [[was]], [[however]], [[different]], according to circumstances and the [[nature]] of the [[ground]], Liv. 35, 4; 27, 28; and cf. Smith's Antiq.—Sometimes the [[army]] marched in the form of a [[square]], [[agmen]] [[quadratum]], [[with]] [[their]] [[baggage]] in the [[middle]], so as to be in [[battle]]-[[array]] on [[meeting]] the [[enemy]]; [[hence]] [[agmen]] [[quadratum]] [[often]] [[means]] the [[same]] as [[acies]] [[triplex]], an [[army]] formed in [[line]] of [[battle]], [[only]] [[that]] the [[former]] indicates [[that]] [[they]] are on the [[march]], and the [[latter]] [[that]] [[they]] are at [[rest]].—Hence, [[like]] [[acies]], [[with]] the epithet [[primum]], the [[vanguard]], Liv. 34, 28; Tac. Agr. 35: [[medium]], the [[centre]], Liv. 10, 41; Tac. H. 4, 22: extremum, Liv. 34, 28; Tac. H. 2, 100; or, novissimum, the [[rear]], rearguard, Liv. 44, 33; so, extremi agminis, Vulg. Deut. 25, 18: ut [[inde]] agmine quadratc ad urbem accederet, marching in a [[square]], Cic. Phil. 13, 8: [[pariter]] [[atque]] in conspectu hostium quadrato agmine incedere, Sall. J 100, 1; cf. id. ib. 46, 6, 7: [[Hannibal]] agmine quadrato amnem [[ingressus]], Liv. 21, 5; se id. 31, 36; 37, 39: quadrato agmine [[velut]] in aciem irent, Curt. 5, 1, 19 al.—Sometimes, esp. in the poets in the plur., in gen. [[sense]], = [[exercitus]] or copiae, an [[army]], [[host]], [[troops]]: huic tanto agmini dux defuit, Just. 12, 10: occidit [[Daci]] Cotisonis [[agmen]], Hor. C. 3, 8, 18: agmina curru Proterit, Verg. A. 12, 329: barbarorum [[Claudius]] agmina diruit, Hor. C. 4, 14, 29; so id. S. 2, 1, 14; id. Epod. 17, 9; Ov. M. 3, 535; 5, 151, 161; 6, 423: Del agminum Israël, Vulg. 1 Reg. 17, 45: agmina ejus dispergam, ib. Ezech. 12, 14; 38, 6.—For [[military]] [[service]], [[warfare]]: [[rudis]] agminum Sponsus, Hor. C. 3, 2, 9.—<br /> <b>B</b> Trop.<br /> <b>1</b> An [[army]], [[troop]], [[band]], [[multitude]]: educenda [[dictio]] est ex hac domesticā exercitatione et umbratili [[medium]] in [[agmen]], in pulverem, in clamorem, in [[castra]], aciemque forensem, i. e. [[before]] the [[public]], Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 157: e Brundisio [[usque]] Romam [[agmen]] perpetuum totius Italiae, an [[unbroken]] [[train]], id. Pis. 22, 51: [[ingens]] mulierum [[agmen]], Liv. 2, 40; 9, 17: agmina Eumenidum, Verg. A. 4, 469; 6, 572: agmina comitum, Ov. Tr. 14, 30: in [[angusto]] [[fidus]] [[comes]] agmine turbae, Tib. 1, 5, 63: numerosum [[agmen]] reorum, Plin. Ep. 3, 9: [[agmen]] occupationum, an [[army]] of, id. ib. 2, 8.—<br /> <b>2</b> March, [[movement]]: agmina fati et volumina, Gell. 6, 2, 5. | ||
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|gf=<b>agmĕn</b>,⁷ ĭnis, n. ([[ago]]),<br /> <b>I</b> [en général]<br /><b>1</b> marche, cours : agmine [[certo]] Laocoonta petunt Virg. En. 2, 212, ils marchent droit à [[Laocoon]] ; leni fluit agmine [[Thybris]] Virg. En. 2, 782, le Tibre coule d’une allure paisible ; agmine remorum celeri Virg. En. 5, 211, grâce à la [[vive]] allure des [[rames]] ; agmina caudæ Virg. G. 3, 423, les replis de la queue [de la couleuvre]<br /><b>2</b> file, bande, troupe : agminibus comitum qui [[modo]] [[cinctus]] erat Ov. Tr. 1, 5, 30, lui à qui naguère des troupes de compagnons faisaient escorte ; [[dictator]] [[stipatus]] agmine patriciorum Liv. 6, 38, 5, le dictateur escorté d’une foule de patriciens || [[longum]] pascitur [[agmen]] (cervorum) Virg. En. 1, 185, en longue file ils (les cerfs) paissent ; agmine magno corvorum [[exercitus]] Virg. G. 1, 381, une armée des légions] de corbeaux en longue file ; [[agmen]] [[apium]] Virg. G. 4, 59, essaim d’abeilles ; it [[nigrum]] campis [[agmen]] (formicarum) Virg. En. 4, 404, la noire colonne des fourmis] chemine dans la plaine.<br /> <b>II</b> [langue militaire, emploi le [[plus]] fréquent dans la prose classique]<br /><b>1</b> marche d’une armée : in agmine adoriri Cæs. G. 3, 24, 3, attaquer pendant la marche ; lentum [[agmen]] Tac. H. 2, 99, marche [[lente]] ; citato agmine Liv. 2, 20, 4 ; concitato agmine Liv. 28, 22, 11, d’une marche [[vive]], avec impétuosité ; præcipiti agmine Liv. 3, 10, 12, précipitamment ; fugæ simili agmine Liv. 6, 32, 10, d’une marche qui ressemblait à une fuite<br /><b>2</b> [sens le [[plus]] ordinaire] armée en marche, colonne de marche : [[ordo]] agminis Cæs. G. 2, 19, 1, disposition de la colonne de marche, ordre de marche ; [[primum]] [[agmen]] Cæs. G. 1, 15, 5, etc., avant-garde ; [[medium]] Cæs. C. 1, 79, 5, le centre de la colonne ; novissimum Cæs. G. 1, 15, 2, etc., arrière-garde ; [[extremum]] Cæs. G. 2, 11, 4 ; C. 1, 64 1, la fin de la colonne, les dernières lignes de l’arrière-garde ; quadrato agmine, agmine quadrato Cic. Phil. 2, 108, etc.; Liv. 2, 6, 6, etc., marche en carré = en ordre de bataille ; [[agmen]] claudere Cæs. G. 2, 19, 3 ; cogere Liv. 22, 2, 3, etc. [au fig. Cic. Att. 15, 13, 1 ], former l’arrière-garde, fermer la marche ; [[agmen]] constituere Sall. J. 49, 5 ; Liv. 38, 25, 12, arrêter les troupes, faire halte || [poét.] agmina, troupes, armée, bataillons, escadrons : Virg. En. 1, 490 ; 2, 267 ; 6, 814, etc.; Hor. S. 2, 1, 14, etc. || par ext.] impedimentorum [[agmen]] Hirt. G. 8, 8, 3, la colonne des bagages, le train des équipages ; [[agmen]] jumentorum Hirt. G. 8, 35, 2, la colonne des bêtes de somme ; navium Liv. 21, 27, 8, la file des navires ; agmine [[facto]] Liv. 5, 30, 4 ; 38, 33, 6 ; Virg. En. 1, 82, etc., en rangs serrés, en colonne compacte. | |||
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