pugna (any conflict, from a single combat to the bloodiest pitched battle; like μαχή): acies (the conflict of two contending armies drawn up in battle array): proelium (the occasional rencounter of separate divisions of the armies, as an engagement, action, skirmish; like συμβολή). Wearied by the length of the battle, they withdrew from the engagement, diuturnitatepugnae defessi proelio excesserunt: a sharp battle is fought, fit proelium acri certamine: a battle more like the encounter of banditti than a military engagement, pugna latrocinio magis quam proelio similis: the battle was long and well contested, pugnatum est diu atque acriter: to go into battle, in proelium ire; in proelium or aciem prodire; in aciem or certamendescendere: to lead an army to battle, exercitum in aciem educere: to lead to battle 100,000 foot, in aciem centum millia peditum producere: to offer battle, productis copiis pugnandi potestatem facere: to join battle, proelium committere; manum conserere: to renew the battle, pugnam novam integrare; proelium redintegrare or renovare: to win the battle, proelio or pugna superiorem discedere; victorem proelio excedere: to lose the battle, pugna or proelio inferiorem discedere; proelio vinci or superari.