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proelium, -ii battle (cp. bellum = war) dux, ducis leader, general casus, -us misfortune pauci, -ae, -a few maneo, manēre, mansi to remain, stay (cp. moneo, monēre to warn) gero, gerere, gessi, gestus to bear, carry, wear; to wage (bellum) potestas, -tatis power nego, -are, -avi, -atus to deny, to say (that something did) not (happen) supplicium, supplicii punishment, execution frango, -ere, fregi, fractus to break scio, scire, scivi, scitum to know proximus, a, um nearest, next pereo, -ire, -ii to perish (to go away thoroughly) constituo, -ere, constitui, constitutum to set up, establish; to decide ob on account of (+acc) decet, decere, decuit it is fitting (impersonal) potius rather suadeo, -ēre, suasi to persuade neve OR neu or not, and not violo, -are to do violence to, to harm; to break rursus back, again (similar to iterum) crudelis, -is, -e cruel