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ad ancoram consistereto ride at anchor.Rate it:
ad ancoras deligarito ride at anchor.Rate it:
ad annuma year from now.Rate it:
ad arma conclamare (Liv. 3. 50)to call to arms.Rate it:
ad arma concurrereto rush to arms.Rate it:
ad artem redigere aliquidto systematise.Rate it:
ad artem, ad rationem revocare aliquid (De Or. 2. 11. 44)to reduce a thing to its theoretical principles; to apply theory to a thing.Rate it:
ad aures alicuius (not alicui) pervenire, accidereto come to some one's ears.Rate it:
ad bene beateque vivendumfor a life of perfect happiness.Rate it:
ad bonam frugem se recipereto recover one's reason, be reasonable again.Rate it:
ad calculos vocare aliquid (Amic. 16. 58)to go through accounts, make a valuation of a thing.Rate it:
ad causam aggredi or accedereto undertake a case.Rate it:
ad denarios L in singulos modios annona perveneratcorn had gone up to 50 denarii the bushel.Rate it:
ad dicendum se conferreto devote oneself to oratory.Rate it:
ad diem constitutamat the appointed time.Rate it:
ad egestatem, ad inopiam (summam omnium rerum) redigito be reduced to (abject) poverty.Rate it:
ad exemplum alicuius se conformareto shape one's conduct after another's model.Rate it:
ad exiguum tempusfor a short time.Rate it:
ad exitium vocarito be ruined, undone.Rate it:
ad exitum aliquid perducereto finish, complete, fulfil, accomplish a thing.Rate it:
ad extrema perventum estaffairs are desperate; we are reduced to extremeties.Rate it:
ad extremum auxilium descendereto be reduced to one's last resource.Rate it:
ad extremum tumulumon the edge of the hill.Rate it:
ad felicitatem (magnus) cumulus accedit ex aliqua rehis crowning happiness is produced by a thing; the culminating point of his felicity is...Rate it:
ad finem aliquid adducereto finish, complete, fulfil, accomplish a thing.Rate it:
ad gubernacula (metaph. only in plur.) rei publicae sedereto hold the reins of government.Rate it:
ad historiam (scribendam) se conferre or se applicareto devote oneself to writing history.Rate it:
ad honores ascendereto rise, mount to the honours of office.Rate it:
ad horam compositamat the time agreed on.Rate it:
ad id ipsumwith this very object.Rate it:
ad id quod voluit pervenithe attained his object.Rate it:
ad inferos descendereto descend to the world below.Rate it:
ad iniurias fortunae expositum esseto be a victim of the malice of Fortune.Rate it:
ad intellegentiam communem or popularem accommodare aliquidto accommodate something to the standard of the popular intelligence.Rate it:
ad interitum ruereto be ruined, undone.Rate it:
ad interrogata respondereto answer questions.Rate it:
ad irritum redigere aliquidto frustrate, nullify.Rate it:
ad libertatem conclamareto summon to liberty.Rate it:
ad litteram or litterarum ordine digerereto arrange in alphabetical order.Rate it:
ad litteram, litterateto the letter; literally.Rate it:
ad misericordiam aliquem allicere, adducere, inducereto arouse feelings of compassion in some one.Rate it:
ad multam noctemtill late at night.Rate it:
ad nomen non respondere (Liv. 7. 4)to fail to answer one's name.Rate it:
ad officium redireto return to one's duties.Rate it:
ad omnes casus se comparareto prepare oneself for all contingencies.Rate it:
ad omnes casus subsidia comparareto be prepared for all that may come.Rate it:
ad opus faciendum accedereto take a task in hand, engage upon it.Rate it:
ad palum deligare (Liv. 2. 5)to bind to the stake.Rate it:
ad pedes alicuius accidereto fall at some one's feet.Rate it:
ad pedes alicuius iacēre, stratum esse (stratum iacēre)to prostrate oneself before a person.Rate it:

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