Idioms in Cambridge Latin

Poenās dare

to pay the penalty, to be punished

Causam agere

to conduct or plead a case

Cōnsilium capere

to form a plan, to have an idea

Bellum gerere

to wage war

Ōrātiōnem habēre

to make a speech

Prīmā lūce

at daybreak, at dawn, at first light

Impetum facere

to charge, to make an attack

Negōtium agere

to do business

Iter facere

to make a journey, to march

Grātiās agere

to give thanks

Memoriā tenēre

to remember

Fābulam agere

to act in a play

Animus recipere

to recover consciousness

Rem conficere

to finish the job

Se convertere

to turn (oneself)

Graviter ferre

to take badly

Iniūriam īnferre

to do an injustice

Sē īnstruere

to draw oneself up

Rem intellegere

to understand the truth

Rem nārrāre

to tell a story