Lexicographical Neighbors of Signa
Literary usage of Signa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"mota e castris signa eorum, qui, etc., 1. e. an advance of the troops, etc., L.
: signa mo- vet, advances, V. : ferte signa in ..."
2. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"... S.: signa subsequi, to keep the order of battle, Cs. : signa servare, ...
to run away, S. : signa ferre, ie to decamp, Cs. : mota e castris signa ..."
3. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"The term antesignani, taken together with the fact that where signa arc spoken
of in a battle without any qualification the reference is generally to the ..."
4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"... Fool's Preferment' (1688), Act I. Sc. ip AM signa. Opera in two acts,
libretto (founded on ... signa."
5. Caesar's Gallic war: (Allen and Greenough's edition)by Julius Caesar, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge, Moses Grant Daniell by Julius Caesar, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge, Moses Grant Daniell (1904)
"Phrases : signa convertere, wheel, change front, face about; signa inferre,
advance to attack, charge ; conversa signa inferre, change front and charge ..."
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