INSTRUCTION Copy link • INSTRUCTIONTeaching, institutio: disciplina: ☞ instructio unclassical. To remain under instruction for twenty years, in disciplinā viginti annos manere (Caes.). Direction, command, praeceptum (as direction): mandatum (as charge, etc.). A secret instruction, praeceptum arcanum or occultum. I have received instructions to, etc., mihi mandatum est, ut, etc.: to give anybody’s instructions, alicui mandata dare; aliquem edocere, quae agat; alicui negotium dare, ut, etc.; alicui praecipere, ut, etc. To act according to one’s instructions, praecepta alicujus sequi († Verg.): to follow one’s instructions to the letter, omnia ad praeceptum agere (Caes., explaining the different duties of a “legatus” and a commander- in-chief): to receive instructions fin anybody, mandata accipere ab aliquo: give him exact instructions about all that you wish me to do or get done for you, omnibus ei de rebus, quas agi, quas curari a me voles, mandata des velim: to give anybody instructions as to what he should, etc., alicui mandare, quae illum (agere, etc.) velis.