HALT Copy link • HALT 1. Of an army, (α) TRANS.; to halt his army, milites etc., consistere jubere (to give the command to halt): agmen constituere (Sall. and Liv.); signa constituere (Liv.). (β) INTRANS.; (or absolutely) subsistere: consistere (especially on a march): sistere iter (to stop one’s march, anywhere, ad aliquem locum). Halt! (as command), consiste (consistite!); mane (manete!). To hesitate, Vid: To limp; e.g., anything halts, claudicat or claudit aliquid (i. e., does not stand well, does not get on as it should; also IMPROP., aliquid claudicat in oratione; claudicat hic versus; ☞ “a halting sonnet,” Shaks.); vacillat aliquid (i. e., does not stand firm; e.g., justice); (The words are found in this connection and order.) aliquid vacillat et claudicat: claudum esse (to be halting). 2. s. e.g., to make a halt [Vid. HALT, v.] . The act of limping, claudicatio.