Found 38 phrases starting with AC:

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ac (sed) de ... satis dixi, dictum estso much for this subject...; enough has been said on...Rate it:
accedere ad cotidiani sermonis genusto adopt the language of everyday life.Rate it:
accedere, se conferre ad rem publicamto devote oneself to politics, a political career.Rate it:
accendere, incendere aedificiato set buildings on fire.Rate it:
accepimuswe know; we have been told.Rate it:
accessio paucorum annorumthe addition of a few years.Rate it:
accessus et recessus aestuumebb and flow (of tide).Rate it:
accipere aliquem (bene, copiose, laute, eleganter, regio apparatu, apparatis epulis)to entertain, regale a person.Rate it:
accipere, vertere aliquid in omento interpret something as an omen.Rate it:
accommodate ad persuadendum dicereto be a persuasive speaker.Rate it:
accusare aliquem ambitus, de ambituto accuse some one of illegal canvassing.Rate it:
accusare aliquem de vi, de veneficiisto accuse a person of violence, poisoning.Rate it:
accusare aliquem falsarum tabularumto accuse a person of forging the archives.Rate it:
accusare aliquem inter sicarios (Rosc. Am. 32. 90)to accuse a person of assassination.Rate it:
accusare aliquem maiestatisto accuse a person of high treason (more specific than the preceding).Rate it:
accusare aliquem peculatus, pecuniae publicaeto accuse some one of malversation, embezzlement of public money.Rate it:
accusare aliquem perduellionisto charge a person with treason (hostile conduct against the state generally).Rate it:
accusare aliquem rei capitalis (rerum capitalium)to charge some one with a capital offence.Rate it:
accusatio (Cael. 3. 6)a criminal accusation.Rate it:
acer morsus doloris est (Tusc. 2. 22. 53)the pain is very severe.Rate it:
acerbum dolorem alicui inurereto cause any one very acute pain.Rate it:
acie (armis, ferro) decernereto fight a pitched battle.Rate it:
aciem (copias, exercitum) instruere or in acie constituereto draw up forces in battle-order.Rate it:
aciem explicare or dilatareto extend the line of battle, deploy the battalions.Rate it:
aciem triplicem instruere (B. G. 1. 24)to draw up the army in three lines.Rate it:
acies hostium impelliturthe enemy's line is repulsed.Rate it:
acies inclīnat or inclīnatur (Liv. 7. 33)the line of battle gives way.Rate it:
acroāmaa professional performer.Rate it:
acta rescindere, dissolvere (Phil. 13. 3. 5)to declare a magistrate's decisions null and void.Rate it:
acti labores iucundi (proverb.)rest after toil is sweet.Rate it:
actiothe treatment of the piece.Rate it:
actio (Brut. 38)delivery.Rate it:
actio paulum claudicatthe delivery is rather halting, poor.Rate it:
actio, petitioa private, civil prosecution.Rate it:
actor primarum (secundarum, tertiarum) partiumthe actor who plays the leading part.Rate it:
actum est de meit's all over with me; I'm a lost man.Rate it:
actusan act.Rate it:
acute, subtiliter concludereto draw a subtle inference.Rate it:

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