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"english": "1924 translation by B. O. Foster\nAlthough the Romans got word that things were quiet in Etruria, still, because they heard that this question came up at all their meetings, they so constructed their works as to have a double fortification, one facing Veii, to oppose the sallies of the townsfolk, the other confronting Etruria, to shut off any assistance that might come from thence.",
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"text": "Romanis etsi quietae res ex Etruria nuntiabantur, tamen quia omnibus conciliis eam rem 9agitari adferebatur, ita muniebant ut ancipitia munimenta essent: alia in urbem et contra oppidanorum eruptiones versa, aliis frons in Etruriam spectans, auxiliis si qua forte inde venirent obstruebatur.",
"translation": "1924 translation by B. O. Foster\nAlthough the Romans got word that things were quiet in Etruria, still, because they heard that this question came up at all their meetings, they so constructed their works as to have a double fortification, one facing Veii, to oppose the sallies of the townsfolk, the other confronting Etruria, to shut off any assistance that might come from thence."
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"english": "1949 translation by Frank Gardner Moore\nThe open passages between the maniples of the front line troops Scipio filled with velites, the light-armed of that day, under orders that, upon the charge of the elephants, they should either flee behind the ranks in the line, or else dashing to right and left and closing up to the maniples in the van, should give the beasts an opening through which they might rush among missiles hurled from both sides.",
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"ref": "69 BCE, Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei 4, 9",
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"source": "declension",
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"dative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ancipitem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "anceps",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ancipitīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ancipitēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ancipitia",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ancipitī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ancipite",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ancipitī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"neuter",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ancipitibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "anceps",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"neuter",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "ancipitēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "ancipitia",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "anceps"
},
"expansion": "anceps (genitive ancipitis); third-declension one-termination adjective",
"name": "la-adj"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "anceps"
},
"name": "la-adecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"double-headed, having two heads"
],
"links": [
[
"double",
"double"
],
[
"head",
"head"
],
[
"two",
"two"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "biceps"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"one-termination"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"having two summits or peaks"
],
"links": [
[
"summit",
"summit"
],
[
"peak",
"peak"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(of mountains) having two summits or peaks"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of mountains"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"one-termination"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "1924 translation by B. O. Foster\nAlthough the Romans got word that things were quiet in Etruria, still, because they heard that this question came up at all their meetings, they so constructed their works as to have a double fortification, one facing Veii, to oppose the sallies of the townsfolk, the other confronting Etruria, to shut off any assistance that might come from thence.",
"ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 5.1.9",
"text": "Romanis etsi quietae res ex Etruria nuntiabantur, tamen quia omnibus conciliis eam rem 9agitari adferebatur, ita muniebant ut ancipitia munimenta essent: alia in urbem et contra oppidanorum eruptiones versa, aliis frons in Etruriam spectans, auxiliis si qua forte inde venirent obstruebatur.",
"translation": "1924 translation by B. O. Foster\nAlthough the Romans got word that things were quiet in Etruria, still, because they heard that this question came up at all their meetings, they so constructed their works as to have a double fortification, one facing Veii, to oppose the sallies of the townsfolk, the other confronting Etruria, to shut off any assistance that might come from thence."
}
],
"glosses": [
"facing in two directions"
],
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"declension-3",
"one-termination"
]
},
{
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"examples": [
{
"english": "1949 translation by Frank Gardner Moore\nThe open passages between the maniples of the front line troops Scipio filled with velites, the light-armed of that day, under orders that, upon the charge of the elephants, they should either flee behind the ranks in the line, or else dashing to right and left and closing up to the maniples in the van, should give the beasts an opening through which they might rush among missiles hurled from both sides.",
"ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 30.33.3",
"text": "Vias patentes inter manipulos ante-signanorum velitibus—ea tunc levis armatura erat—complevit, dato praecepto ut ad impetum elephantorum aut post directos refugerent ordines aut in dextram laevamque discursu applicantes se antesignanis3 viam qua inruerent in ancipitia tela beluis darent.",
"translation": "1949 translation by Frank Gardner Moore\nThe open passages between the maniples of the front line troops Scipio filled with velites, the light-armed of that day, under orders that, upon the charge of the elephants, they should either flee behind the ranks in the line, or else dashing to right and left and closing up to the maniples in the van, should give the beasts an opening through which they might rush among missiles hurled from both sides."
},
{
"english": "...war being waged with the forces of enemies in two of the most remote and separated places, by land and sea, with a united plan, you, stretched by a two-sided struggle...",
"ref": "69 BCE, Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei 4, 9",
"text": "...cum duobus in locis disiunctissimis maximeque diversis uno consilio a binis hostium copiis bellum terra marique gereretur, vos ancipiti contentione districti...",
"translation": "...war being waged with the forces of enemies in two of the most remote and separated places, by land and sea, with a united plan, you, stretched by a two-sided struggle..."
}
],
"glosses": [
"coming from two directions"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"one-termination"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"double-edged"
],
"links": [
[
"double-edged",
"double-edged"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(of swords) double-edged"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of swords"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"one-termination"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"divided into two parts"
],
"links": [
[
"divided",
"divided"
]
],
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{
"word": "duplex"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"one-termination"
]
},
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "certus"
},
{
"word": "prōmptus"
},
{
"word": "indubius"
},
{
"word": "fixus"
}
],
"glosses": [
"wavering, doubtful, uncertain, dubious, shady"
],
"links": [
[
"wavering",
"wavering"
],
[
"doubtful",
"doubtful"
],
[
"uncertain",
"uncertain"
],
[
"dubious",
"dubious"
],
[
"shady",
"shady"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "incertus"
},
{
"word": "suspensus"
},
{
"word": "vagus"
},
{
"word": "dubius"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"one-termination"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"dangerous, hazardous"
],
"links": [
[
"dangerous",
"dangerous"
],
[
"hazardous",
"hazardous"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "perīculōsus"
},
{
"word": "īnfēnsus"
},
{
"word": "dubius"
},
{
"word": "capitālis"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"one-termination"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈaŋ.kɛps]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈan̠ʲ.t͡ʃeps]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "anceps"
}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "la",
"3": "anceps"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Latin anceps",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin anceps.",
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{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ro-noun-n",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "anceps",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative"
]
},
{
"form": "ancepsul",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative"
]
},
{
"form": "anceps",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite"
]
},
{
"form": "ancepsului",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "ancepsule",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"vocative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "n",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "anceps n (uncountable)",
"name": "ro-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"gpd": "ancepselor",
"gpi": "ancepse",
"gsd": "ancepsului",
"gsi": "anceps",
"n": "sg",
"npd": "ancepsele",
"npi": "ancepse",
"nsd": "ancepsul",
"nsi": "anceps",
"vp": "ancepselor",
"vs": "ancepsule"
},
"name": "ro-decl-noun-single"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian neuter nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian terms borrowed from Latin",
"Romanian terms derived from Latin",
"Romanian uncountable nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"anceps"
],
"links": [
[
"anceps",
"anceps#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "anceps"
}
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