forward Copy link Outline 1. of place2. porro3. prorsus or prorsum (straight f., as opp. to backwards)4. ante (rare in this sense) • forward, forwards (adv.): 1. of place: oftenest expr. by a prep. in comp.: as, to go f., pergo: to fall f., prōcĭdo; to throw f., projĭcio, etc., where v. to go, fall, etc. 2. porro: to drive a herd f., agere p. armentum, Liv. 1, 7: to persist in going f., ire p. pergere, Liv. 9, 2, med. 3. prorsus or prorsum (straight f., as opp. to backwards): backwards and f., rursum prorsum, Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 35: he walks not f.s but sideways as a crab does, non prorsus verum ex transvorso cedit, quasi cancer, Pl. Ps. 4, 1, 54. 4. ante (rare in this sense): to walk not f.s but backwards, non a. sed retro ingredi, Cic. Tusc. 5, 12, 35. Phr.: backwards and f., ultro citroque: when ambassadors were being frequently sent backwards and f., quum saepe u. c.que legati inter eos mitterentur, Caes. B. G. 1, 42: Cic.: sometimes without the conj.: going up and down, backwards and f., sursum deorsum, ultro citro commeantibus, Cic. N. D. 2, 33, 84: also, huc illuc (to and fro, hither and thither): from this time f.s, jam inde, Ter.: Liv. (v. from, C. fin.): forwards! as an exclamation, perh. procede, procedite (v. TO GO FORWARDS).