OFFENSIVE Copy link • OFFENSIVECausing anger, pain, or disgust, quod offensioni est, offensionem habet or affert: quod offendit, quod non vacat offensione (that is faulty): quod displicet (that displeases): odiosus (that causes scandal): exemplo haud saluber (that sets a bad example): mali or pessimi exempli (that sets a very bad example): Very offensive manners, mores pessimi, perditi: offensive language, voces lascivae (licentious), protervae (wanton), obscenae (obscene), contumeliosae (injurious to the eredit of anyone): to use offensive language to anyone, conscelerare aures alicujus: to be offensive, offensioni esse; offensionem or offensam habere; offensionem affeire: to any one, alicui; non vacare offensione: to be offensive to the eyes and ears, ab oculorum auriumque probatione abhorrere. Assailant, opposed to defensive, by circumlocution. An offensive war, *bellum quod ultro infertur; *bellum ultro inferendum (while yet future), ultro illatum (when already begun): to begin an offensive war, bellum inferre, or ultro inferre (Caes., Liv.); armis, bello, lacessere or petere aliquem; infesto exercitu pergere in agrum hostium; ultro petere hostem: an offensive alliance or treaty, *foedus ad bellum alicui inferendum initum; to act on the offensive (against any state or people), sociare arma contra aliquem: the Romans under Fabius acted on the defensive rather than on the offensive, Romani apud Fabium arcebant magis quam inferebant pugnam (Liv., 10, 28): to act both on the offensive and on the defensive, inferre vim atque arcere: to be strong enough to act on the offensive inferendo bello satis pollere (Tac., Hist., 3, 55, 1).