LOSS Copy link • LOSSThe act of losing, amissio; jactura; or by circumlocution; e.g., duo consulares exercitus amissi nunciabantur (the loss of): moveor tali amico orbatus (by the loss of): salva, or integra, aliqua re (without the loss of) without loss of time, sine mora; continuo. Damage, damnum (opposed to lucrum): detrimentum (opposed to emolumentum). (The words are found in this connection and order.) damnum et detrimentum; dispendium (useless expense): calamitas (misfortune bringing damage): clades (overthrow or defeat in battle): to occasion loss, damnum alicui inferre, or contrahere; detrimentum alicui afferre, inferre, or importare: to retire without loss, sine detrimento discedere: to suffer loss, damnum, detrimentum, or jacturam facere; in damnum incurrere; detrimentum capere or accipere; calamitatem accipere (☞ damnum, or jacturam, pati is not classical): to suffer loss in battle, cladem contrahere: with the loss of many troops, multis amissis: to repair or make up a loss, damnum explere, pensare, compensare (sarcire post-classical), restituere; detrimentum sarcire, reconcinnare; quod amisi, reparo; quae amissa sunt, reficere: to meet the loss from one’s own private resources, jacturae patrimonio succurrere. Failure: I am at a loss, incertus or dubius sum aliquid faciam; quid agam nescio; de aliquo or de aliqua re incertus sum, quid sim facturus: never at a loss, qui armatus semper et quasi in praecinctu stat.