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agmen
agmen
Latin
Noun
agmen n (genitive agminis); third declension
- a train of something; multitude, host, crowd, flock
- an army, column, troop, band; line of troops
- (of water) stream, course, current, motion
- (of an army) procession, march, progress, movement
Inflection
Third declension neuter.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | agmen | agmina |
genitive | agminis | agminum |
dative | agminī | agminibus |
accusative | agmen | agmina |
ablative | agmine | agminibus |
vocative | agmen | agmina |
Derived terms
References
- agmen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- agmen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- AGMEN in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “agmen”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the centre of the marching column: agmen medium (Liv. 10. 41)
- the vanguard: agmen primum
- the rearguard: agmen novissimum (extremum)
- to bring up the rear: agmen claudere, cogere
- to set the army in motion: agmen agere
- to lead the army with forced marches: citatum agmen rapere
- to lead the army with forced marches: raptim agmen ducere
- to march down on to..: agmen, exercitum demittere in...
- to march with closed ranks, in order of battle: agmine quadrato incedere, ire
- in two, three columns: agmine duplici, triplici
- the centre of the marching column: agmen medium (Liv. 10. 41)
- agmen in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- agmen in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin