REAR Copy link • REAR 1. v. Transitively, To bring up, educare [Vid: in EDUCATE]. Intransitively, exsultare (the proper word; Vid: Nep., Eum 5, 5); erigere pedes priores (to raise the fore feet, Liv., 8, 7): tollere se arrectum (Verg., Aen., 10, 392). 2. s. agmen extremum or novissimum (Caes.); extrema agminis (Liv.): from the context also, novissimi (opposed to primum agmen). To bring up the rear, agmen claudere or cogere. ☞ The foregoing when the army is considered as on a march; of an army in order of battle, we must say acies, not agmen, and then “the rear” is novissima acies; e.g., ab novissima acie ante signa procedere (Liv.).