reinforcement
REINFORCEMENT
Act of reinforcing confirmatio; usually by the verb.
Fresh supply of troops incrementum: supplementum; also auxilia: subsidia (plur. Cic.). To send a reinforcement mittere alicui subsidium or milites subsidio mittere alicui: integros milites submittere defessis (in action).
Act of reinforcing confirmatio; usually by the verb.
Fresh supply of troops incrementum: supplementum; also auxilia: subsidia (plur. Cic.). To send a reinforcement mittere alicui subsidium or milites subsidio mittere alicui: integros milites submittere defessis (in action).
reinforcement:
1. supplēmentum (recruits, men to fill up the ranks): to send young men as a r. for the fleet, in s. classis juventutem dare, Liv. 28, 37: to enlist r.s for the legions, s. legionibus scribere, Cic. Fam. 3, 3, 1.
2. subsĭdium (reserve, relief): to send r.s from the wings, s. a lateribus submittere, Caes. B. C. 1, 45: to bring up a r. of fresh troops, integros subsidio adducere id. B. G. 7, 87.
3. auxĭlium (help, aid): the r. of cavalry which they had sent to Caesar, equitatus quem auxilio Caesari miserant, Caes. B. G. 1, 18, ad fin.
4. Expr. by novae copiae (fresh troops): Tac. A. 2, 65, extr.; Caes. Phr.: r.s of fresh troops came to the relief of the exhausted, integri milites succedere defessis, Caes. B. G. 7, 41.
1. supplēmentum (recruits, men to fill up the ranks): to send young men as a r. for the fleet, in s. classis juventutem dare, Liv. 28, 37: to enlist r.s for the legions, s. legionibus scribere, Cic. Fam. 3, 3, 1.
2. subsĭdium (reserve, relief): to send r.s from the wings, s. a lateribus submittere, Caes. B. C. 1, 45: to bring up a r. of fresh troops, integros subsidio adducere id. B. G. 7, 87.
3. auxĭlium (help, aid): the r. of cavalry which they had sent to Caesar, equitatus quem auxilio Caesari miserant, Caes. B. G. 1, 18, ad fin.
4. Expr. by novae copiae (fresh troops): Tac. A. 2, 65, extr.; Caes. Phr.: r.s of fresh troops came to the relief of the exhausted, integri milites succedere defessis, Caes. B. G. 7, 41.