RANK Copy link • RANK 1. adj., Strong-scented, graveolens, male olens; foetidus: to be rank, male olere. Gross, coarse, Vid: Also in composition; e.g., rank rogue, trifurcifer (comedy); caput scelerum (Plaut., Pseud., 4, 5, 3); princeps flagitiorum (Cic., Verr., 5, 1, 4): rank fool, homo stultior stultissimo (Plaut., Amph., 3, 2, 25); stultus bis terque (after Cic., Qu. Fr., 3, 8, extr.). 2. s. Row, ordo. [Vid: ROW]. Line of soldiers, ordo: the first, second, third rank, acies prima, media, extrema: in close ranks, munito agmine (e.g., incedere, Sall., Jug., 46, 3): to quit the ranks, ordine egredi (of one or several); ordines deserere or relinquere (of several): to break through the ranks. ordines perrumpere: to break the ranks (i. e., to throw the troops into confusion), ordines turbare, conturbare: to march in rank and file, compositos et instructos procedure: to reduce to the ranks [Vid :, To DEGRADE]. Class, classis. Grade, dignity, ordo (station): locus (by birth or distinction, often = auctoritas, dignitas, gratia; Vid: Herzog, ad Caes., B.G., 5, 44): gradus (degree, often with honoris, dignitatis): honos (post of honor): fastigium, amplitudo, summus locus (high rank). A man of rank, vir honoratus: a man of respectability and rank, vir ampius et honoratus; vir persona et dignitate clarus or praestans (after Cic.): the first rank, primae, priores (sc. partes); principatus: secondary rank, secundus locus (Nep.); sors secunda (Liv.); secundae (sc. partes, Cic.): the lowest rank, infimus locus: to be of the first rank in the state, principem esse in civitate, or principis personam in civitate tueri (Cic.): philosophers of the first rank, philosophi longe principes (Cic.): scholars of the first rank, litterati primum classium (Wyttenback); *viri docti, qui primas in litteris tenent, or qui priucipatum in doctrina et eruditione obtinent: to be of inferior rank, loco, ordine, dignitate esse inferiorem: to be of higher rank, honoris gradu esse superiorem: gradation of rank, dignitatis gradus. 3. v. Transitively, (primas, priores, etc.) alicui deferre; (priucipatum, chief rank) deferre, dare; loco aliquo ponere, disponere (of several). Intransitively, locum (primum, secundum, infimum) tenere, obtinere.