ROUT Copy link • ROUT 1. s. A clamorous multitude [Vid: CROWD]. Discomfiture [Vid: DEFEAT]. To put to the rout, fundere fugareque: to put to the rout with (great) slaughter, stragem dare, or edere, or facere: alicui cladem afferre or inferre: aliquem prosternere: alicui detrimentum inferre: aliquem ingenti caede prosternere: aliquem ad internecionem caedere or redigere, or delere hostem, or hostium copias occidione occidere or caedere: hostium internecionem facere, etc.: to be put to the rout, cladem pugnae, or simply cladem, or calamitatem, or incommodum, or detrimentum accipere: ad internecionem caedi or deleri; ad internecionem venire. Should the army be put to the rout, si adversa pugna evenerit. ☞ It may be remarked here that the Romans, in speaking of their own defeats, or when introducing a person as speaking of his, were in the habit of using the euphemistic terms of adversum proelium or adversa pugna (unlucky fight, Liv., 7, 29, extr.; 8, 31, 5); or incommodum, detrimentum (mishap, loss, Cic., Lael., 3, 10; Caes., B.G., 1, 3; 5, 52; 6, 34, etc.); and obitus (complete defeat, Caes., B.G., 1, 29). 2. v. (an army). Vid: To put to the rout, in ROUT, s.