reserve (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Closeness of dispositionII. A body of troops • reserve (subs.): I. Closeness of disposition: no exact equiv.: perh. the nearest is taciturnitas: your r. caused graver suspicion to light on you, suspicionem majorem tua t. attulerat, Cic. Att. 7, 8, 1: v. foll. art. II. A body of troops: subsĭdium: to post as a r., in subsidiis locare, Sall. C. 59 to send up r.s, s. submittere, Caes. B. G. 4, 26. Adj.: subsĭdiārius (subsidialis, Amm.): hence, the r., s. milites, Liv. 5, 38: the line of r., s. acies, Auct. B. Afr. 59: the cohorts of the r., s. cohortes, Caes. B. C. 1, 83. Phr.: to form the r., subsidiari, Hirt. B. G. 8, 13.