“March” in Latin

(the month)(the month), Martius mensis (Plin.): March wind, mense Martio spiralis, flans: March violet, viola odorata (Linn.).

Military gait or pace, gradus: quick march, gradus citatus (PROP.), ingressus pleno gradu (figuratively).

Military movement, journey of soldiers, iter. On the march, iter faciens (marching; e.g., occisus est): in itinere (during the march): ex itinere (from the march, so that the march is interrupted; Vid: Held., Caes., B.C., 1, 24): to direct a march to a place, iter aliquo facere, conferre, convertere, intendere: to change the line of march, iter mutare, commutare (general term); iter or viam flectere (to lake a side route): to give the order for a march, iter pronunciare (Liv., 30, 10): to give the signal for a march, signum profectionis dare (of a commander): classicum canere (of a trumpeter = to sound a march): march! (as a word of command) procede! plur., procedite: to continue a march, pergere in itinere; iter conficere pergere; (rarely) iter pergere; uninterruptedly, iter continuare, non intermittere: to stop the enemy’s march, prohibere itinere hostes: to hasten a march, iter maturare, pergere.

Space to be marched over, iter; iter unius diei; castra, -orum, neuter (a day’s march; the latter with reference to the Roman custom of pitching their camp after each day’s march; Vid: Herzog, Caes., B.G., 7, 36): in three days’ march, trinis castris: on the fifth day’s march, quintis castris (e.g., Caes. Gorgoviam pervenit): after a full day’s march, confecto justo itinere ejus diei: a short day’s march, iter minus: to make a double march, iter diei duplicare: to make forced marches, magnis itineribus contendere (general term); dies noctesque iter facere, die et nocte continuare iter (to continue marching by day and by night): to steal a march upon an enemy, hosti iter praecipes; praevenire hostem breviori via.

Departure by marching, profectio. To get ready for a march, profectionem parare: to give the signal for a march, signum profectionis dare.

Music to which soldiers march, *modi militares.

INTRANS., incedere (to march on): progredi, proficisci (to march forth or away): iter facere (to be on the march): castra movere, promovere, also simply movere (to break up a *camp, to march forward). To march three deep, triplici ordine incedere (☞ Curt., 3, 9, 12): they were marching thirty men deep, triginta armatorum ordines ibant (ib.): to march slowly, placide progredi (general term); iter reprimere (to slacken the pace): to march quickly, celeriter progredi (general term); raptim agmen agere (on the march): to march faster, accelerare iter: to march day and night, dies noctesque iter facere; die nocteque continuare iter; diurnis nocturnisque itineribus contendere; to a place, aliquo: to march last, agmen claudere, cogere: to march toward a place, proficisci, iter facere, intendere aliquo: to march into a country, proficisci in, etc.: to march by a place, praeter locum transire; with an army, praeter locum exercitum transducere: to march over a mountain, montem transire, superare: to march very quickly through a country, ingenti celeritate regionem percurrere: to march out, proficisci (ex) loco: to march out to battle, in aciem exire: ad dimicandum procedere (of the soldiers): exercitum in aciem educere (of the general): to march out on an expedition, exercitum in expeditionem educere (of the general): to march out of a town with the troops, copias educere ex or ab urbe (opposed to sese oppido continere): to march out of a camp, copias pro castris produccre (opposed to castris se tenere: exercitum or copias in castris continere): to march out from winter-quarters, ab hibernis discedere.

TRANS., deducere exercitum a loco: to march out the troops, copias ex urbe educere, extrahere: to march out troops from their winter-quarters, ex hibernis copias deducere; copias extrahere ex hibernaculis.