List of Caesarian Idioms

Prepositional

a dextro cornu: on the right wing

a fronte: in front

a pueris: from boyhood

a sinistro cornu: on the left wing

ab armis discedere: to lay down the arms

ab signis discedere: to leave the ranks

ab officio discedere: to fail in one's duty

ab cohortatione: after exhorting

ab eis defendere: to defend against them

ab milibus passuum octo: eight miles off

ab re frumentaria laborare: to suffer with respect to provisions

ad Caesarem deferre: to lay before Caesar

ad equum rescribere: to enroll in the cavalry

ad extremum: at last

ad hunc modum: in this way

ad milia decem: about ten thousand

ad speciem: for show

ad unum: to a man

ad urbem: near the city

ad urbem pervenit: he arrived at the city

ad Alpes pertinent: extend as far as the Alps

apud Caesarem: in the presence of Caesar

de ea causa: for this reason

de improviso: suddenly

ex aqua mensurae: measures by the water-clocks

ex itinere: on the march