ADVANCE Copy link • ADVANCE 1. v. t., move forward, PROP., promovere (a camp, troops, chessmen, etc.). Promote to honor, aliquem augere, tollere, attollere (to raise a man to posts of honor in a state): fovere (to show favor to by one’s arts): ornare, exornare (to distinguish): gratia et auctoritate sua subtentare (support by one’s influence). (The words are found in this connection and order), augere atque ornare: augere et adjuvare; fovere ac tollere; sustiuere ac fovere. To advance to anything, producere ad dignitatem (to raise to a post of honor): promovere ad, or in munus, or ad locum (to advance to an office: time of empire. Not promovere alone): muneri praeficere (set over anything): munere ornare. To advance anybody to a higher rank or office, aliquem promovere ad (in) ampliorem gradum, ad ampliora officia. Forward: to advance anybody’s interests, servire alicujus commodis; rebus or rationibus alicujus consulere or prospicere. The interests or welfare of a state, saluti reipublicae consulere; rempublicam juvare, tueri; reipublicae salutem suscipere. A study, studiis favere, studia concelebrare (by pursuing it eagerly: of several persons, Cic., Invent., 1, 3, 4). Enlarge, promovere (e.g., imperium, moenia, etc.). To advance anybody’s fortune, alicujus fortunam ampliticare. Adorn, Vid: Accelerate, accelerare aliquid (to hasten anything): maturare aliquid, or with infinitive (to endeavor to bring that to pass which should be performed now): repraesentare aliquid (to do without delay, even before the time): praecipitare aliquid (to hurry it on too much). Propose, bring forward, etc. To advance an opinion, sententiam dicere (to give or declare an opinion); tueri (to maintain it); aperire (to open or disclose it), etc. Pay in advance. Vid. ADVANCE, s. 2. v. i., to come forward, procedere (general term: also of a player): progredi (also of a general): prodire (to come forth; hence, also, to project). Of an army, Vid: MARCH. Make progress, procedere, progredi, procedere et progredi, proficere: in anything, in re; processus (never in the Golden Age profectum) facere in re. To advance in virtue, procedere et progredi in virtute; progressionem facere ad virtutem. 3. s. progressus, progressio (PROP. and IMPROP.): processus (IMPROP.). Money paid or received in advance, *pecunia in antecessum data or accepta, respectively. To pay anybody in advance, pecuniam alicui in antecessum dare. A step forward, as it were, to meet a lover and fix his attention: perhaps the nearest notion is blandimentum, blanditiae. To make advances to, petere: prps., per blandimenta adgredi (used by Tac. of a mother toward her son): pellicere (ad sese) aliquem, or alicujus animum.