achievement Copy link Outline I. Exploit.1. res gesta2. făcĭnus, ŏris, n. (usu. with an epithet, and more freq. in bad senseII. A coat of arms • achievement: I. Exploit. 1. res gesta: the people rejoices in its a., populus re gesta laetatur, Cic.: the success of one's a.s, felicitas rerum g., Caes. Phr.: great a.s both in military and in civil life were performed in those times by very brave men, magnae res temporibus illis a fortissimis viris gerebantur, Cic. 2. făcĭnus, ŏris, n. (usu. with an epithet, and more freq. in bad sense: v. crime): a great and memorable a., f. magnum et memorabile, Ter.: I should consider that a most noble a., id f. pulcherrimum esse arbitrarer, Cic. II. A coat of arms: *generis insigne, is, n. (usu. in pl.).
ACHIEVEMENT Copy link • ACHIEVEMENTcompletion; performance, exsecutio. Heroic action, facinus magnum (any great action), res prseclare gesta. Achievements, res gestae (not confined to successes in war). Escutcheon, insigne generis (☞ Cic., pro Sulld, 31, 88).