“command” in Latin

to give a command, jubere (general term, order anything to be done, with the implied notion that the person who commands has, or assumes that he has, a right to do so; followed by infinitive active, with accusative if the person commanded is named; or by infinitive passive if the person is not named, nor plainly alluded to from the context: If the person, however, is virtually expressed from the context, the infinitive active is used. It is also, although less frequently, followed by ut, if it is used in the sense of imperare. jubere alicui is never found in the Golden age), imperare alicui aliquid or ut (to command in consequence of the power invested in anybody; seldom in the sense of jubere with following accusative and infinitive.): praecipere alicui aliquid or with ut (to command in consequence of one’s authority, prudence, experience, and superior talents): praescribere alicui aliquid or with ut (prescribe; both praecipere and praescribere, of superiors giving rules or directions for conduct to their inferiors): mandare alicui aliquid or with ut (to charge or commission, the manner of the execution being left to the person commissioned): pronunciare (to cause to be proclaimed by a herald, etc.): edicere: edictum proponere (with ut, of a magistrate, commanding publicly by a proclamation): sciscere: sciscere jubereque (with ut, to make a law, regulation, or act; the proper term to be applied to an act passed by the Roman “plebs”): decernere (to pass a resolution, that anything should be done, on the part of the Senate, consul): sancire: edicto sancire (to command or forbid under a penalty “that” etc., ut or ne).

To have a right to command, imperandi jus potestatemque habere; at any place, loco praeesse: To command an army, exercitui praeesse or praepositum esse; exercitum ducere: to command the other wing, alterum tenere cornu (Nep.): to command the fleet, navibus et classi praeesse or praepositum esse: the cavalry, equitatui praeesse: to command in a province, praeesse provinciae (Sall.), or in provincia (Cic.): to have a right to command anybody, imperium in aliquem or aliquem sub imperio habere; est mihi imperium in aliquem: imperitare alicui: alicujus esse imperatorem: imperio regere or imperio tenere aliquem, aliquid (to have the chief command of anybody or anything). dominari, dominationem habere in aliquem (command absolutely): praeesse alicui or alicui rei (to preside): to command a town, urbem imperio regere: to be commanded by anybody, imperio alicujus teneri: teneri in alicujus ditione et potestate: not to allow one’s self to be commanded, imperium alicujus detrectare: To have no right to command, nullam potestatem, nullum imperium habere; nullum est alicujus in aliqua re arbitrium: to allow one’s self to be commanded by anybody, alicui or alicujus imperio parere, obtemperare: I will do what you command (= bid, wish), faciam quae jubes or praecipis, ut dixisti or dicis; ut placuerit.

To be master of, imperare alicui rei: moderari alicui rei; e.g., to command one’s tongue, linguae or orationi: one’s pain, grief, dolori imperare: dolorem in potestate tenere: to command one’s self, sibi imperare: animi potentem esse, animum suum comprimere, coërcere: one’s anger, iram reprimere: not to command one’s anger, ira teneri; impotentem esse irae (stronger): we do not command our passions (desires), cupiditates dominationem in nos habent: the mind commands the body, animus regit corpus: not to command our ambition, ambitione teneri: to command one’s passions, cupiditatibus imperare: opposed to servire: cupiditates continere, comprimere, coërcere, frenare, domare ac frangere.

To overlook, so that it may be seen or annoyed: (a) in a military sense, superare locum: imminere alicui loco: the tower commanded the high ground where the spring was, turris superabat fastigium fontis (B.G. 8, 41): the tower commands the city, ex turri tela jaciuntur ad urbem (after Caes., B.G. 8, 4): the hill commanded the town, collis imminet urbi: (b) to give a view of, aliquem locum prospicere. The house commands an extensive view of the fields, domus longos agros prospicit (Hor.): the countryhouse commands the lake, villa lacum prospicit (Plin.).

Of a superior, jussus: jussum (command of anybody who has or pretends to have a right to do it): auctoritas (declaration of the will of a superior): imperium (command of a general, a prince): imperatum (the thing commanded by one who has an imperium): praeceptum (precept, regulation): mandatum (commission, charge) edictum (edict, public proclamation): decretum (resolution of the Senate, a consul, in the form of a decree): plebiscitum (resolution of the Roman plebs, opposed to populi jussum, i. e., of the whole people; Vid: Bremi, Nep., Arist: 1, 4): rescriptum (command of a prince, post-Augustan): a written command litterae (e.g., Tiberius sent a written command to the army, Tiberius litteras ad exercitum misit): a secret command, praeceptum arcanum: at the command of anybody, jussu or aucioritate alicujus: jubente aliquo: also jussus a aliquo; sometimes also, a aliquo only (e.g., he did his duty towards the Athenians, at whose command he had gone out, Atheniensibus a quibus profectus erat, officia praestabat, Nep., Milt: 2, 3, Dähne): without anybody’s command, injussu alicujus; ab aliquo non jussus: ultro (of one’s own accord, opposed to alicujus jussu or jussus); sua sponte (voluntarily): to act without special command, privato, non publico consilio aliquid facere: to give the command [Vid: To COMMAND]: to execute a command, jussum or imperatum facere: mandata efficere, conficere, perficere, exsequi, persequi: in the exactest manner, mandata exhaurire. imperio alicujus defungi: to follow, obey a command; to act according to a command, alicujus praeceptum observare, curare, alicujus dicto parere: audientem esse dicto or jussis alicujus: imperio alicujus obtemperare: without delay, quod aliquis imperavit, impigre facere: zealously, imperata enixe facere: negligently or lazily, somniculose imperia persequi: punctually, imperata obedienter facere: praeceptum diligenter curare: to refuse obedience to anybody’s commands; or, not to obey his commands, imperium aspernari, contemnere: imperium, mandatum negligere: decreto non stare: to act against the command, contra edictum facere (it being a proclamation): to transgress the command, mandatum excedere, egredi.

The power (of commanding anybody), imperium (especially in the army): potestas (the command given or conferred on anybody, thus the legal command): under anybody’s command, quo duce: alicujus ductu: to have the command of an army, a fleet, etc., exercitui, navibus et classi praeesse or praepositum esse: to have the command of the other (i. e., the left) wing of the army, alterum tenere cornu (Nep., Pelop., 4, 3): to be under anybody’s command, alicujus imperio par (especially of soldiers): alicui parere. in potestate or sub imperio alicujus esse (to be under anybody’s guidance or power): to place one’s self under the command of anybody, se ad auctoritatem alicujus conferre: Chief command, summa rerum: summum imperium: summa imperii, or imperium only [Vid: also, CHIEF-COMMAND] ☞ That imperium does not exclusively refer to military matters, Vid :, Theodor Banfei, in “John’s Jahrbücher,” 1832: vi: 3, p. 300): belli imperium: belli summa (of the general): summa imperii maritimi (of the admiral): to have the command of an army, summam imperii tenere, obtinere: summae rei or rerum, summae imperii praeesse, praeesse exercitui. ducere exercitum: to have the chief command of a fleet, navibus et classi praeesse: toti officio maritimo praepositum cuncta administrare (if the whole administration of naval affairs belongs to the person): to give to anybody the chief command, summam rerum ad aliquem deferre: summam imperii alicui tradere: of an army, a fleet, aliquem exercitui or classi praeficere: in a war, aliquem toti bello imperioque praeficere: summam belli alicui deferre: summam imperii bellique administrandi alicui permittere: aliquem bello praeponere: to be under the chief command of anybody, alicujus imperio parere (general term); sub aliquo militare (of soldiers): to serve under anybody’s command (during a war), aliquo or sub aliquo imperatere or sub signis alicujus mereri: to be sent anywhere with the command, aliquo cum imperio proficisci: to prolong anybody’s command, imperium prorogare (prolongare not Latin): to prolong the command for another year, imperium in annum propagare (hence to continue, e.g., the war, bellum): to take away the command, adimere alicui imperium or abrogare alicujus imperium (Cic.): to lay down the command, imperium deponere: an extraordinary command, imperium extraordinarium (Cic.): to give anybody an extraordinary command, dare alicui imperium extraordinarium or extra ordinem: to hold the most important commands, cepisse et gerere maxima imperia.

The command (of one’s passions, etc.), continentia; temperantia (the moderation in them; comp: Cic., De Invent., 2, 54, 164): to have a command (or no command) over one’s passions, desires, over one’s self, [Vid: To COMMAND].

Desire, wish, disposal, jussum. voluntas: what are your commands? quid vis? quid jubes?Tell me in a word, what are thy commands? quin tu uno verbo dic, quid est, quod me jubes? I am at your command, exspecto, quid velis: I am, in all things at your command, omnibus in rebus me fore in tua potestate, tibi confirmo (Cic. ad Div. 5, 4, 6, Cort.): my purse is at your command, mea arca utere non secus ac tua (Plin., Ep: 3, 19, 8): my house is always at your command, semper tibi patent fores hae: my home is always at your command, whether I may be in or not, tibi mea domus me praesente, absente patet: to submit entirely to anybody’s commands, se totum fingere ad arbitrium et nutum alicujus: to do anything at anybody’s command, ad nutum alicujus et voluntatem aliquid facere: to be at command (i. e., ready or at hand for use), promptus: money which is at command, pecunia praesens: to be at command, promptum or paratum esse: to be sufficiently at command, suppetere (of things, Vid :, Moeb., Caes., B.G., 1, 3): to have at command, providisse, paravisse: to keep at command, habere paratum, in expedito, in procinctu: to have money at one’s command, pecuniam in numerato or prae manu habere tears which anybody has at his command, lacrimae confictae doloris.