ENGAGEMENT Copy link • ENGAGEMENTCombat, pugna: proelium: acies [SYN. in BATTLE]: certamen: proelii concursus; or concursus, congressus only; proelii dimicatio, or dimicatio only; also in plur., dimicationes, “engagements.”A naval engagement, proelium navale, pugna navalis; dimicatio navalis (Hirt., B. Alex., 25): a sharp engagement, proelium acre: to renew the engagement, in pugnam redire (to return to it); pugnam repetere (after an interruption); pugnam novam integrare: proelium redintegrare or renovare (to begin, as it were, again; nearly always of fresh troops); pugnam iterare (to fight a second battle; e.g., postero die, Liv.): to continue or carry on the engagement, pugnam excipere (of fresh troops, coming up to take the place of others who are wearied, Liv., 38, 22, in.): to be conquerors in an engagement, proelio or pugna superiores discedere; victores proelio excedere: to be defeated in an engagement, proelio or pugna inferiorem discedere; proelio vinci or superari: to give a signal for the engagement to begin, proelium committere (also of the soldiers or army beginning the engagement): a short engagement takes place, fit or agitur leve proelium: to be wearied by the length of the engagement, diuturnitate pugnae defessum esse. Agreement, conventus: conventum: constitutum: sponsio: pactum, pactio [SYN. in AGREEMENT]; fides, qua me obstrinxi. To form an engagement with anybody, pacisci, depacisci cum aliquo; pactionem cum aliquo facere or conficere; about anything, de aliqua re pacisci: to keep an engagement, pactum praestare; in pacto permanere; pactis or conventis stare: according to the terms of our engagement, ex pacto, ex conventu (Auct. ad Herenn.), ex convento (Cic.). (The words are found in this connection and order.) ex pacto et convento: to volunteer an engagement to dine with anybody, condicere alicui ad cenam.