inroad Copy link Outline 1. incursio (the usual word)2. excursio (= incursio, from the opposite point of view)3. irruptio (a sudden, violent i.; a foray) • inroad: 1. incursio (the usual word): to make an i. into territories, inc. in fines facere, Liv. 1, 11, init.: Caes. 2. excursio (= incursio, from the opposite point of view): to defend one's territories from the i.s of enemies, fines suos ab ex. hostium tueri, Cic. Deiot. 8, 22: cf. sally. 3. irruptio (a sudden, violent i.; a foray): make an i. on the cook-shop, in popinam ir. facite! Pl. Poen. prol. 42: Cic. Man. 5, 15 (= incursio, supr.). Phr.: to make an i., incurrere, e. g. in Macedoniam, Liv. 26, 25: Hor. S. 2, 1, 37: also excurrere (in fines), Liv. 1, 15; and with slightly different sense, violare fines, Caes. B. G. 6, 32.
INROAD Copy link • INROADHostile incursion, incursio: irruptio. To make an inroad, incursionem or irruptionem facere. To make inroads, incursiones hostiliter facere: to prevent the incursions of the enemy, prohibere hostem ab incursionibus (Caes.): he promised to make no incursions into their territory, eorum fines se non violaturum promisit (Caes.). IMPROPR., Encroachment, attack (Vid :), imminutio alicujus rei (a lessening of it; e.g., dignitatis). To make inroads on anything, violare aliquid (e.g., jus); violare atque imminuere (e.g., officium, jus, etc.). To make an inroad on one of the people’s immemorial privileges, quod populi semper proprium fuit... imminuere, or mutare (Cic.).