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1 OL-, a row, line, series, order, rank: arborum derecti in quincuncem ordines: ordines caespitum, courses, Cs.: tot premit ordinibus caput, layers (of ornaments), Iu.: terno con<*> surgunt ordine remi, in three rows of oar-banks, V.: sedisti in quattuordecim ordinibus, i. e. seats of Equites: comitum longissimus ordo, Iu.—A line, rank, array: aciem ordinesque constituere: nullo ordine iter facere, Cs.: nullo ordine commutato, S.: signa atque ordines observare, keep the ranks, S.: multiplicatis in arto ordinibus, L.: nosse ordines, understand tactics, Ta.—Band, troop, company, century: viri qui ordines duxerunt, who have commanded companies: ordinem in exercitu ducere, Cs.—A captaincy, command: mihi decumum ordinem hastatum adsignavit (i. e. centurionem me decimi ordinis hastatorum fecit), L.: tribunis militum primisque ordinibus convocatis, the captains of the first companies, Cs.—An order, rank, class, degree: equester, Cs.: senatorius: in amplissimum ordinem cooptare, into the senate: magna frequentia eius ordinis, S.—A class, rank, station, condition: superioris ordinis nonnulli, Cs.: publicanorum: homo ornatissimus loco, ordine, nomine.—Fig., right order, regular succession: fatum appello ordinem seriemque causarum: mox referam me ad ordinem, return to order: eundem tenere, preserve: immutare, change: perturbare, disturb: decemviri querentes, se in ordinem cogi, i. e. were degraded to the ranks, L.: nec quo prius ordine currunt, in order, as before, O.: ordinem Rectum evagans licentia, H.—In adverb. uses, turn, order, succession, regularity: Hegioni rem enarrato omnem ordine, in detail, T.: tabulae in ordinem confectae: ordine cuncta exposuit, L.: ut quisque . . . ita sententiam dixit ex ordine: Septem totos ex ordine menses, in succession, V.: an recte, ordine, e re p. factum, properly: extra ordinem ad patriam defendendam vocatus, irregularly: spem, quam extra ordinem de te ipso habemus, in an extraordinary degree.
