Definition of bellum, duellum
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1.
LEM
bellum, bellī
(duellum, duellī)
DVA-, DVI-
noun (n., 2nd declension)
  1. war
  2. a feud, private hostility
  3. [plural] an army
  4. battle
  5. a history of a war
Abbreviations
bellum old and poet. duellum, ī, n DVA-, DVI-, war.

— Form duellum: agere rem duelli, C. (lex): purum piumque, L. (old record): victoria duelli, L. (oracle): Pacem duello miscuit, H.

— Form bellum: Germanicum, against the Germans, Cs.: Sabinum, L.: regium, against kings: civile, Cs.: Helvetiorum, against the H., Cs.: Pyrrhi: cum Iugurthā: cum Samnitibus, L.: adversus Vestinos, L.: contra patriam: in Peloponnesios gerere, N.: in Asia gerere: gerere apud Mutinam, N.: civitati bellum indicere: patriae facere: parare, L.: parare alcui, against, N.: decernere alicui: indicere, L.: facere alicui: sumere, to undertake, S.: facere atque instruere, carry on: difficultates belli gerendi, Cs.: Hannibale duce gerere, L.: trahere, to protract, L.: bellum non inferre, sed defendere, not aggressive but defensive, Cs.: deponere, to discontinue, S.: velut posito bello, L.: positis bellis, V.: componere, to end by treaty, S.: sedare, N.: conficere, to end successfully: finire, to terminate, L.: futura bella delere, make impossible: legere, to read about: consentire, to ratify a declaration of war, L.: ad privatum deferre, to give the command in: mandare alcui, L.: alcui bellum gerendum dare: bello imperatorem praeficere: alqm ad bellum mittere: ad bellum proficisci: bellum in Galliā coortum est, broke out, Cs.: exortum, L.: spargi bellum nequibat, be waged by detachments, Ta.

— In expressions of time, manner, etc.

—Belli (loc. case), in war, during war: magnae res belli gerebantur

— usu. with domi: belli domique, S.: vel belli vel domi: in bello, in war-time, L.: in civili bello: in Volsco bello, L.: bello Romanorum: res bello gestae, during war, L.: res pace belloque gestae, L.: princeps pace belloque, L.: bello d{*}ique, L.: omnibus Punicis bellis: victor tot intra paucos dies bellis, L.: mos inter bellum natus, L.: iustum, righteous, L.

— also, regular warfare (opp. populabundi more), L.: belli eventus, the result: belli exitus: bella incerti exitūs, indecisive, L.: fortuna belli, the chances of war, L.: varia, L.: belli artes, military skill, L.: iura belli, the law of war: genus belli, the character of the war.

— Meton., of animals or things, war: parietibus bellum inferre: philosophiae ... bellum indicere: ventri Indico bellum, H.: miluo est bellum cum corvo.

—A feud, private hostility: cum eo bellum gerere quicum vixeris: hoc tibi iuventus Romana indicimus bellum, L.

—Personified (for Ianus): sunt geminae Belli portae, etc., V.: Belli postes portasque, H.

—Plur, an army: Nereus Bella non transfert, O.

— Battle: bello excedere, S.: laus eius belli, L.: Actia bella, V.

— A history of a war: gaudebat Bello suo Punico Naevius.
 
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