ordo

fatum appello ordinem seriemque causarum
I recognize fate as the order and succession of causes auxilia regis nullo ordine iter fecerant
the auxiliary troops of the king had made the journey in no formation eum absentem in amplissimum ordinem cooptaverunt
they elected him while he was absent to the most honorable class (to the Senate)

ōrdō, inis, m.: an arranging; line, 1.395; train; order, rank of oars, 5.271; order, 5.349; train, procession, 6.754; series, succession, course of events, 3.376; estimate, class, position, 2.102; abl., ōrdine, in due course, properly, 3.548; in historical order, in detail, 3.179; ex ōrdine, in succession, 5.773. (rel. to ōrdior)

ordo, ĭnis, m. [from root or-; Sanscr. ar-, to go, strive upward; cf. orior, through an adj. stem ordo-; v. Corss. Krit. Beitr. p. 108], a regular row, line, or series, methodical arrangement, order (class.; syn.: series, tenor).

• I In gen.: ordinem sic definiunt compositionem rerum aptis et accommodatis locis, Cic. Off. 1, 40, 142: vis ordinis et collocationis, id. ib. 1, 40, 142: arbores in ordinem satae, i. e. planted in a quincunx, Varr. R. R. 1, 7; cf. Cic. Caecin. 8, 22; id. Sen. 17, 59.—
• • B Esp., right order, regular succession: fatum appello ordinem seriemque causarum, Cic. Div. 1, 55, 125: nihil esse pulchrius in omni ratione vitae dispositione atque ordine, Col. 12, 2: adhibere modum quendam et ordinem rebus, Cic. Off. 1, 5, 17: mox referam me ad ordinem, will soon bring myself to order, return to order, id. Ac. 2 (Luc.), 20, 67: res in ordinem redigere, to reduce to order, Auct. Her. 3, 9, 16; so, in ordinem adducere, Cic. Univ. 3: ordinem conservare, id. Rosc. Com. 2, 6: eundem tenere, to preserve, id. Phil. 5, 13, 35: sequi, id. Brut. 69, 244: immutare, to change, id. Or. 63, 214: perturbare, to disturb, id. Brut. 62, 223: cogere or redigere in ordinem, to reduce to order, to humble, degrade: decemviri querentes, se in ordinem cogi, Liv. 3, 51; 3, 35; Plin. Ep. 1, 23, 1; Quint. 1, 4, 3; so, in ordinem redactus, Suet. Vesp. 15; cf. trop.: gula reprimenda et quasi in ordinem redigenda est, Plin. Ep. 2, 6, 5.—
  • C Adverb. expressions.
  • • 1 Ordine, in ordinem, per ordinem, in ordine, ex ordine, in order, in turn: Hegioni rem enarrato omnem ordine, Ter. Ad. 351; Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 17 (377); Ter. Heaut. 706: interrogare, Cic. Part. 1, 2: tabulae in ordinem confectae, id. Rosc. Com. 2, 6: ordine cuncta exposuit, Liv. 3, 50, 4; 30, 15, 1: sortiti nocte singuli per ordinem, Quint. 4, 2, 72: hos Corydon, illos referebat in ordine Thyrsis, Verg. E. 7, 20; id. A. 8, 629: ut quisque aetate et honore antecedebat, ita sententiam dixit ex ordine, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 64, § 143: ordine se vocante, when his turn came, Macr. S. 2, 2, § 12: in ordine vicis, Vulg. Luc. 1, 8.—
    • 2 Ordine, regularly, properly, appropriately: omnia ut quidque Egisti ordine scio, Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 15 (1299): rem demonstravi ordine, id. Mil. 3, 3, 2 (876); id. Capt. 2, 3, 17 (377) Brix ad loc.: an id recte, ordine, e re publicā factum esse defendes? Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 84, § 194: si hoc recte atque ordine factum videtur, id. Quint. 7, 28.—
    • 3 Ex ordine, in succession, without intermission: vendit Italiae possessiones ex ordine omnes, Cic. Agr. 1, 2, 4: septem illum totos perhibent ex ordine menses Flevisse, Verg. G. 4, 507; cf. id. A. 5, 773.—
    • 4 Extra ordinem.
    • • a Out of course, in an unusual or extraordinary manner: extra ordinem decernere provinciam alicui, Cic. Prov. Cons. 8, 19: crimina probantur, in an illegal manner, Dig. 48, 1, 8.—
      • b Extraordinarily, i. e. uncommonly, eminently, especially: ad eam spem, quam extra ordinem de te ipso habemus, accedunt tua praecipua, Cic. Fam. 6, 5, 3.—
• II Transf. concr.
• • A In gen.
  • • 1 Tres ordines lapidum, three courses of stones, Vulg. 3 Reg. 6, 36.—In building, a row, course, or layer of stones, etc.: obstructis in speciem portis singulis ordinibus caespitum, Caes. B. G. 5, 51: alius insuper ordo adicitur, id. ib. 7, 23: tot premit ordinibus caput, tiers or layers of ornaments, Juv. 6, 502. —
    • 2 A row of benches or seats: terno consurgunt ordine remi, in three rows of oar-banks, Verg. A. 5, 120: sex ordinum navem invenit Xenagoras, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 208.—In the theatre, a row of seats: post senatores ex vetere instituto quatuordecim graduum ordines equestri ordini assignati fuere, Suet. Aug. 44: sedisti in quatuordecim ordinibus, Cic. Phil. 2, 18, 44.—
    • 3 A train of servants or attendants: comitum longissimus ordo, Juv. 3, 284.—
  • B In milit. lang.
  • • 1 A line or rank of soldiers in battle array: auxilia regis nullo ordine iter fecerant, Caes. B. C. 2, 26: ne quisquam ordine egrederetur, Sall. J. 45, 2: nullo ordine commutato, id. ib. 101, 2: sine signis, sine ordinibus, id. ib. 97, 5; so, signa atque ordines observare, to keep the ranks, remain in line, id. ib. 51, 1: conturbare, id. ib. 50, 4: restituere, id. ib. 51, 3; Liv. 2, 50; 8, 8.—
    • 2 A band, troop, company of soldiers: viri fortissimi atque honestissimi, qui ordines duxerunt, who have led companies, have been officers, Cic. Phil. 1, 8, 20: L. Pupius primipili centurio, qui hunc eundem ordinem in exercitu Pompeii antea duxerat, Caes. B. C. 1, 13. —Hence,
    • 3 A captaincy, a command: ordinem alicui adimere, Tab. Heracl. ap. Mazoch. p. 423, n. 47; cf. on the contrary: alicui assignare, Liv. 42, 34: DARE, Inscr. Orell. 3456: centuriones ad superiores ordines transducere, Caes. B. G. 6, 40; cf. id. ib. 5, 4, 4.—
    • • • β Ordines, chieftains, captains: tribunis militum primisque ordinibus convocatis, the captains of the first companies, Caes. B. G. 6, 7 fin.; Liv. 30, 4, 1.—
  • C In a polit. respect, an order, i. e. a rank, class, degree of citizens: et meus med ordo inrideat, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 55 (232).—In the time of Cicero there were three principal classes, ordo senatorius, equester, and plebeius: Fidiculanius cujus erat ordinis? senatoril, Cic. Clu. 37, 104; id. Fl. 18, 43: proximus est huic dignitati equester ordo, Cic. Dom. 28, 74; Suet. Aug. 41: inferiores loco, auctoritate, ordine, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 48, § 127: ordo amplissimus, i. e. the Senate: quem absentem in amplissimum ordinem cooptarunt, id. Cael. 2, 5; also termed SPLENDIDISSIMVS ORDO, Inscr. Orell. 1180; 1181; and simply ordo, the order, for the Senate: ordo Mutinensis, Tac. H. 2, 52; Inscr. Grut. 425, 1: trecentos ex dediticiis electos utriusque ordinis, i. e. of the two upper classes, Suet. Aug. 15.—
  • • 2 In gen., a class, rank, station, condition: mearum me rerum aequom'st novisse ordinem, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 50 (451): publicanorum, Cic. Fam. 13, 9, 2: aratorum, pecuariorum, mercatorum, id. Verr. 2, 2, 6, § 17: homo ornatissimus loco, ordine, nomine, id. ib. 2, 1, 48, § 127: libertini, Suet. Gram. 18.—So in the inscrr.: SACERDOTVM, HARVSPICVM, etc., Grut. 320, 12; 304, 7; 302, 2 et saep.; so, grammatici alios auctores in ordinem redigerunt, alios omnino exemerant numero, recognized among, placed in the rank of, Quint. 1, 4, 3.—
    • • • β Esp. (eccl. Lat.), an order in the church, an ecclesiastical rank or office: ordines sacerdotum et Levitarum, Vulg. 2 Esdr. 13, 30: secundum ordinem Melchisedek, id. Psa. 109, 5.

ōrdo, inis, m. (ordior), I) die Reihe, Ordnung, A) im allg.: olivarum, Cic.: duplex dentium, Val. Max. u. Plin.: longus vehiculorum, Sen.: longus funebrium pomparum, Ps. Quint. decl.: arbuscula in ordinem ponere, Varro: vites ordine ponere, Verg.: arbores serere in ordines, Varro. – ordine, α) der Reihe nach, Punkt für Punkt, bis ins einzelne, Komik. u. Cic. β) ordnungsmäßig, wie sich's gebührt, gehörig, Plaut. u. Cic. (s. Wagner Ter. heaut. 706. Lorenz Plaut. Pseud. 655): verb. recte et (od. atque) ordine, Sall. u. Liv. – ex ordine, α) nach der Reihe u. Ordnung, Ter. u. Cic. β) in einem weg, Verg. γ) sofort, sogleich, Verg. – in ordinem, Cic., od. in ordine, Verg., nach der Reihe, -Ordnung: nullo ordine, ohne Ordnung, ungeordnet, nicht in Reih u. Glied gestellt, Caes. – extra ordinem, α) außer der Reihe u. Ordnung, außerordentlich, alci provinciam decernere, Cic.: provincia data est, Suet. β) außerordentlich, ungemein, Cic. γ) außerordentlich, zufälligerweise, Quint. δ) wider alle Ordnung, -Gewohnheit, -Sitte, Cic. – ordine se vocante, als ihn die Reihe traf, Macr. sat. 2, 2, 12. – B) insbes.: 1) die Reihe Bänke od. Sitze, v. Ruderbänken, Verg. u. Plin.: in quattuordecim ordinibus sedēre, auf den vierzehn Reihen Bänken sitzen, Ritter sein (denn ihre Sitze im Theater hießen quattuordecim ordines), Cic. – 2) als milit. t. t. = Glied, Reih und Glied, ordines explicare (ausbreiten), Liv.: ordine egredi, aus R. u. Gl. treten, Sall.: u. so excedere ordinem agminis, Liv.: ordinem u. ordines commutare, die Front verändern, Sall.: servare ordinem, Liv., ordines, Caes.: observare ordines, Sall.: ordines restituere, Sall.: ordines turbare, Liv.: Romanorum ordines conturbare, Sall.: ordines perrumpere, Liv.: ordines pugnantium dissipare, Liv. – u. ein Glied, Zug, eine Zenturie, Kompanie, ordinem ducere, eine Kompanie befehligen, Zenturio (Hauptmann) sein, Caes. u.a.: honestum ordinem in Algido ducere, Zenturio von höherem Range sein, ein höheres Kommando haben, Liv. – alqm in ordinem cogere, s. cōgono. II, 2, a (Bd. 1. S. 1248): meton.: a) die Zenturionenstelle, Hauptmannsstelle, Caes. u. Liv. – b) der Hauptmann selbst, ordines primi, Hauptleute von den ersten Kompanien (der hastati, principes und triarii, die in zehn solche ordines oder centuriae eingeteilt gewesen zu sein scheinen: also ordo = der dreißigste od. sechzigste Teil einer Legion), Caes. u. Liv. – 3) der Stand, a) die Klasse der Bürger (in Rom Senatoren-, Ritter- u. Plebejerstand), ordo amplissimus od. senatorius, der Senatorenstand, Cic.: so auch hic ordo, Senat, Kollegium (des Senates), Cic. Cat. 1, 20: in Kolonien u. Munizipien, ordo Mutinensis, Tac.: ferner ordo equester, Ritterstand, Cic.: ordo pedester, die Klasse der Bürger, die zu Fuß dienen, Liv. – b) übh., der Stand, die Klasse, Abteilung, publicanorum, libertinorum, scribarum, Cic.: sacerdotum od. sacerdotalis, Eccl.: matronarum, Val. Max.: homo mei loci atque ordinis, von meinem Range u. Stande, Ter. – u. der Rang, die Stellung, mearum rerum ordo, die meinen Vermögensverhältnissen angemessene St., Plaut: scis ordine ut aequomst tractare homines, jeden nach seiner Stellung u. Lage, Plaut.: illa (luxuriae spolia) per ordinem (nach der Rangordnung) expandere (Ggstz. in unum acervum dare), Sen. – II) die Ordnung, Reihenfolge, gehörige Aufeinanderfolge, ordentliche Einrichtung, -Beschaffenheit, A) eig.: rerum, Cic.: ordo annalium, die R. der Begebenheiten in den Annalen, Cic.: vicissitudines rerum atque ordines, Wechsel u. Aufeinanderfolge in der Natur, Cic.: cetera nomina in ordinem referre, in ihrer O. eintragen, Cic.: in ordinem se referre, wieder in Ordnung kommen, Cic.: res in ordinem adducere, in Ordnung bringen, Cic.: in ordinem redigere, s. redigono. II, B, a: servare ordinem in sententiis rogandis, Cic.: servare hunc ordinem laboris quietisque, Liv.: ordinem conservare od. tenere, Cic.: ordinem sequi, Cic.: ordinem immutare, Cic.: explicare ordines temporum, die Begebenheiten chronologisch ordnen, Cic. – B) übtr.: 1) die Verfassung, der Zustand, Plaut. trin. 451. – 2) die Verordnung, Einrichtung, magni numinis, Manil. 1, 531.

ordo [CL] 1 line of things placed next to each other, row, layer; b (of shelf in a book-case); c (of group of eight runes); d (of series of mus. notes); e (lacteus ~o) Milky Way. circa templum in gyro factum tres ~ines habebat lapidum et quartum lignorum Bede Ezra 848; ~ines lapidum in pariete portantur alii ab aliis Id. Ep. Cath. 48; 1286 ~o domorum et seldarum versus campum Law Merch. I xliv; herba occasionis ‥ inter singulos ~ines foliorum habet spacium trium digitorum in stipite Alph. 80.  b armarium, in quo libri reponuntur ‥ in quo eciam diversi ~ines seorsum et deorsum distincti esse debent. in quibus libri separatim collocari possint Obs. Barnwell 64.  c runae ‥ in quattuor versus vel ~ines dividuntur Runica Manuscripta 118 (v. 1 littera 1b).  d ~o modi est numerus punctorum ante pausationem Mens. & Disc. (Anon. IV) 23.  e lacteus ordo micat dum sic glomerantur in unum / sidera Neckam DS I 464. 2 (mil.) line of soldiers standing abreast, rank; b (collect.) rank and file (as dist. from class of officers). ~ines aciesque ita instituebat ut milites proceri corpore precellentes robore essent W. Malm. GR III 238; dissipatos ~ines hostium invadunt Ib. IV 357.  b refutarunt ‥ Jerosolimite vel regem facere vel ~inem et ducatum militum interrumpere W. Malm. GR IV 386. 3 group of persons who share the same status or class, an order; b (mil.); c (eccl., usu. clerical as dist. from lay); d (mon.); e (spec.). ob hoc reges, publici, privati ‥ suum quique ~inem servarunt Gildas EB 26; ternos sanctos de unoquoque ~ine dicant Lanfr. Const. 119; cujuscumque dignitatis, cujuscumque ~inis. cujuscumque professionis W. Malm. GR II 150; a necessitate Christiane discipline nemo excipitur ‥ nulla condicio, nullus sexus, ‥ nullus ~o, nulla dignitas Bald. Cant. Serm. 4. 45; sepe ‥ quidam inferioris gradus vel ~inis vel dignitatis ‥ ab excellentioribus in amicitiam assumuntur Ailr. Spir. Amicit. III 90. 692; humani generis ~o Gir. TH III 10.  b ~o militum nunc est ordinem non tenere P. Blois Ep. 94. 294A; s1346 rex ‥ filium ‥ cum multis aliis, ~ine militari insignivit Ad. Mur. Chr. 201; Brutus igitur postquam filii sui ~inem susceperunt militarem acriter excogitavit quomodo illos posset promovere Eul. Hist. II 220; qui quadraginta libratas terre ‥ habent ‥ ~inem suscipiant militarem MGL I 191; 1429 in quibusdam statutis honorabilis ~inis militaris de Gartera ‥ custos dicte capelle [S. Georgii de Wyndesore] decanus nominatur RParl IV 346b; nobilis ordinis Garterii Spons. Mariae 30 (v. garterium b).  c si non tales ‥ malitiae episcoporum ‥ aut clericorum in nostro ‥ ~ine erigi adversus Deum vidissem montes Gildas EB 65; clericalis ~o Osb. V. Dunst. 36 (v. 2 excedere 5c); cum catholica ecclesia dividatur in clericalem ~inem atque laicalem Lanfr. Corp. & Sang. 414A; cum ‥ clericalis ‥ ~o consistat in episcopis ac reliquis Christi aliisque diversarum dignitatum ecclesiasticis personis Ib.; s1139 episcopos, oblitos ~inis, in castellis edificandis insanire W. Malm. HN 468 p. 26.  d ordo cucullatus G. Amiens Hast. 797; canonicalis ~o in Francia et Anglia multipliciter adamatus invaluit Ord. Vit. XIII 13 p. 29; 1219 ~o monachalis in aliquo redargui possit levitatis Doc. Eng. Black Monks I 9; prior provincialis totius ~inis sui in Anglia Leg. Ant. Lond. 155.  e ad construendam abbathiam de ~ine Cistercii Cart. Sallay 1; Cisterciensium aut Carthusiensium ~inem visus sum pre ceteris commendasse P. Blois Ep. 97. 304B; domum pauperem canonice religionis et ~inis de Pratomonstrato vocati ‥ destruere ‥ curavit Gir. Spec. III 2; 1230 rex ‥ concessit ‥ quod ‥ edificia construi possint ad hospitandum fratres de ~ine Minorum in civitate Lincolnie Pat 41 m. 4; 1242 accedas ad singulas domos religionis de baillia tua de ~ine Premonstratensi et Cisterciensi et Nigri ~inis et de ~ine Sancti Augustini Cl 430; 1294 minorisse ~inis S. Clare Foed. II 664; Beda, monachus ~inis Sancti Benedicti, monachus nigri ~inis Gascoigne Loci 175; 1453 fratres de tercio ~ine Sancti Francisci Conc. III 567b; s1483 prior domus ‥ de Northe Fereby ‥ ~inis Templi Domini Jerosolimitani Reg. Whet. II 259. 4 place, position; b (gram.); c (math.). cum in unum convenientes juxta ~inem quique suum resedissemus Bede HE IV 5 p. 215; post gracias de ecclesia ducantur ad ~ines suos in claustro, sedentes super mattas Cust. Cant. 8; omnes ~ines fratrum in refectorio per famulum suum faciet mundare Ib. 162.  b ’ irritatque virum telis et voce lacessit’ licet quidam vitiose scriptum legant ‘irritat atque virum telis’ ; quod nullo modo posse fieri ~o prepositive conjunctionis ostendit Abbo QG 6 (14); ~o dicitur accidere conjunccioni precipue, quia quedam prepositive sunt Ps.-Gros. Gram. 58.  c ex ductu cujuslibet terminorum primi ~inis ducti in semetipsum Ocreatus Helceph 133. 5 a number of things that follow in temporal order or logical sequence, orderly arrangement, system; b (w. ref. to alphabetical order); c (w. ref. to gram. category or paradigm); d (astr.); e (phil.). f (in or per ~inem, in or ex ~ine) in order, in succession. taxis est ~o: quod prius, quod post ponendum sit ut ~inem habeant res Comm. Cant. I 16; jam tempus et ~o rerum exigit ut ‥ enigmatum problemata ‥ patefacias Aldh. Met. 10 p. 96; disrupto rerum ordine (Aldh.) Carm. Aldh. 1. 62; hic est sensus non autem ~o ipse verborum Bede HE IV 24 p. 260; ~o est compositio rerum aptis et accommodatis locis Andr. S. Vict. Dan. 56; oportuit illi scripto epistolas succedere in quibus continetur series et ~o universorum A. Tewk. Prol. Thom. 300; nil ‥ agitur quod communem pacem ‥ vel ~inem ‥ turbare valeat Bald. Cant. Serm. 15. 24. 550; circa disposicionem celestis ~inis Ockham Dial. 632.  b librum de orthographia alphabeti ~ine distinctum Bede HE V 24 p. 359; a1332 proverbia Senece secundum ~inem alphabeti Libr. Cant. Dov. 29; ita ut A. primam distinccionem, B. secundam, C. terciam et sic successive per ~inem denotent intranti (J. Whytefeld Pref. Catal.) Libr. Cant. Dov. 407.  c si liquor verbum fuerit tertiae conjugationis vel tertii ~inis, ut Valerio grammatico vocare libuit Aldh. PR 113 p. 153; si genus aut numerus vel casus ab ordine cedat Id. VirgV 2840; primus igitur ~o, qui genitivo casu -ae regit, hoc modo declinatur Bonif. AG 480.  d celum suis luminaribus adornatur quibus ‥ anni cursus, signorum ~ines disponuntur Ailr. Spec. Car. I 19. 521; in stellis ~o est P. Blois Ep. 97. 305B.  e non differunt [corpora indivisibilia] nisi secundum figuram, posicionem et ~inem T. Sutton Gen. & Corrupt. 83; circa loca igitur sex notentur, sc. quantitas, figura, qualitas, numerus, ~o, et distancia intercepta Bradw. AM 6.  f qui non occurrit ad consummationem, canat viij in ~ine psalmos Gildas Pen. 19; si excitatus veniat post misam, quicquid cantaverunt replicet ex ~ine fratres Ib.; corbes ex ordine cernit Aldh. VirgV 320; quae cuncta ‥ ex ~ine conpleta sunt Bede HE III 15 p. 158; omnes hic per ~inem sibimet succedentes ‥ episcopatu sunt functi Ib. III 24 p. 180; per industriam Eusebii ‥ distinctius in ~inem compositus est [sc. computus paschae] Ib. V 21 p. 341. 6 orderly account, thread of narrative. hoc ~ine ‥ legitur generis humani conceptio Theod. Laterc. 13; id vero scrupulum nec ulli moveat, licet horum ~o preposterus V. Greg. p. 106; iterum cepto ~ine evangelii verba exponens V. Cuthb. II 6; cujus ~inem miraculi non quilibet dubius relator ‥ mihi ‥ narravit Bede HE III 15 p. 158; idcirco paucis depromimus ordine verbis Wulf. Brev. 314; igitur ut ad ~inem historie redeamus V. Chris. Marky. 21; omnes ‥ vel in alium ~inem vel in novam formam permutavi L. Durh. Hypog. 64; hi quatuor martyrizati sunt ‥ a Saracenis; quorum passionis ~inem refert ‥ Odoricus in suo Itinerario Mon. Francisc. I 527. 7 grade, rank within a hierarchy: a (eccl.); b (spec.); c (dist. as sacer, major, minor); d (acad.); e (angelic); f (abstr.). g (in ~inem redigere) to reduce to the lowest rank. a qui aliquid rerum vel ecclesiae vel episcopi vel reliquorum ~inum furto auferret Bede HE II 10 p. 101; pro septem ~inibus ecclesiae, quo sacerdos per Dei donum ascendit ‥ (Quad.) GAS 465; itur in magnis ecclesiis septeno ~ine unde septiformes dicte sunt [precessiones]. in primo ~ine sunt clerici, in secundo monachi ‥ Beleth RDO 123. 129; ecclesiastice institutionis ~ines Ad. Marsh Ep. 247 (v. hierarchicus b); isti ‥ sunt ierarchici ~ines Uhtred Mon. V. 379.  b a primo sacramentorum ~ine nominatim distincta per exorcistas et acolitos ‥ usque ad ipsa summi pontificatus gubernacula Aldh. Met. 2 p. 70; postmodum ad ~inem presbyterii promotus est Bede HE III 23 p. 177; ad ~em episcopatus promovit Willib. Bonif. 8; ex institutione episcopalis ~inis Lanfr. Ep. 13 (14); beatissimus Petrus, princeps ordinis appostolici et clavicularius regni Osb. Clar. V. Ed. Conf. ep.; diaconus ~ine, monachus professione V. Chris. Marky. 28; antiquitus autem ~o subdiaconatus non erat sacer ordo T. Chobham Conf. 376; 1220 idem J. tempore congruo a S. quondam episcopo Cicestrensi ad ~inem acolitatus fuit promotus SelPlCrown 121; 1279 in presbyteratus ~ine constitutus Ch. Sal. 356; 1331 non possunt epistolas in choro legere ‥ nisi ~inem receperint subdiaconalem Lit. Cant. I 391; 1464 Willelmo ‥ in ~ine sacerdotali constituto Ib. III 240.  c siqui ‥ sunt clerici extra sacros ~ines constituti qui se non continere possunt (Libellus Resp.) Bede HE I 27 p. 49; 1244 alii sunt in minoribus ~inibus constituti (Lit. Papae) Mon. Hib. & Scot. 43a ; prohibentur etiam clerici coram seculari judice in minoribus ~inibus constituti vel in majoribus advocare W. Drogheda SA 35; 1330 ad omnes minores et sacros quos nondum sunt ~ines assecuti ‥ promoveri Lit. Cant. I 316; 1332 ad ordines quoscunque, sacros vel non sacros, promoveri Ib. 466; 1408 in ~inibus minoribus et majoribus Ib. 109; ~ines ‥ tam minores quam sacros Eng. Clergy 199; 1573 ne ad aliquem ex minoribus aut sacris ~inibus promoveri tenearis Pat 908 m.11.  d 1412 cum ‥ absurdum ‥ foret eum minori prerogativa dotari quem major ~inis dignitas perillustret StatOx 218; 1549 solennis ‥ professio bacchalaureorum ‥ et ‥ inauguratio ceterorum ~inum Ib. 343.  e 841 novem ~inibus angelorum CS 434; 994 et Lucifer cum decimo ordine per superbiam de coelo ruit CD 686; diversi angelorum ~ines P. Blois Ep. 97. 305C; novem sunt ~ines angeloruma T. Chobham Praed. 41; a supremo angelorum ~ine Ad. Marsh Ep. 216 p. 384; novingentas in honorem novem ~inum angelorum Test. Hen. V 91.  f discretis meritorum ~inibus tripliciter dirimuntur ‥ ut sit virginitas aurum, castitas argentum, jugalitas aeramentum Aldh. VirgP 19; tandem colla jugo subdens delecta petito, / ordinis aptatur coelebs in honore secundi Frith. 241; nullus ~o adeo perfectus est ut virginitas Ailr. Serm. 39. 4.  g abbatem ‥ propter concubinatum in ~inem redegit Ferr. Kinloss 29. 8 order, commandment, rule. contra legem Dei et ~inem suum Anselm (Ep. 269) IV 184; s1235 manifestum est enim eorum accomodationes ab ~ine caritatis sequestrari, cum non manum porrigant egentibus auxiliatricem M. Par. Maj. III 329. 9 form of procedure. b (~o judiciarius) judicial procedure. c (acad.). d (quo ~ine) by what means, how. e (cum ~ine) as a rule, regularly. f (in ~ine ad) in relation to. hoc ‥ ~ine Septentrionalis Scottorum provincia ‥ pascha Dominicum celebrabat Bede HE III 3 p. 131; diem paschae ~ine perverso ‥ in secunda ebdomada totam compleant Ib. V 21 p. 338; clericus cancellarius ‥ prospicit ut rotulus suus aliis respondeat ut nec iota unum desit nec alius sit ~o scribendi Dial. Scac. I 5C; erat enim vir magnanimus et rerum dispendia parvipendens dummodo equitatis ~o et jura ecclesiastica servarentur illesa Canon. G. Sempr. 41v; plures alicui competere poterunt acciones, ~ine ‥ observato Fleta 76; fecerunt ‥ finem levari absque examinacione justiciariorum et absque brevi et absque summonicione et absque ~ine curie State Tri. Ed. I 24; s1290 inclita stirpis regis sponsis datur ~ine legis Ann. Exon. 16; 1410 de experimentali ‥ ~ine (v. experimentalis); 1549 de ~ine advocatorum in judicio Conc. Scot. II 123.  b a1135 mandamus omnibus vobis et quoniam justum est et judiciario ~ine judicatum ‥ (Ch. Heref.) EHR LVI 179n. 1; bestiis ~ine judiciario dampnatis Andr. S. Vict. Dan. 70; ~inem judiciarium J. Ford Serm. 47. 9; c1200 minutas decimas ‥ abstulit citra ~inem judiciarium et eidem hospitali dedit SelCCant 47.  c 1549 ~o disputationum hic est inter sophistas. ‥ ordine sequentur alii juniores ad finem illius anni StatOx 346.  d cum ‥ pervenissemus ad murum, statim nescio quo ~ine fuimus in summitate ejus Bede HE V 12 p. 307; unde delectat ‥ paucis sermonibus dicere quo ~ine migraret a saeculo Cuthb. Ob. Baedae clx; senior ‥ ab abbate inquirat quo ~ine frater ille vivat Lanfr. Const. 164; quo ~ine possimus ad nos ducere Joseph? Eul. Hist. I 111.  e qui se ipsum coinquinat lx dies ‥ si cum ~ine iij xlmas Theod. Pen. I 8. 11.  f in ~ine ad dileccionem Dei Wycl. Mand. Div. 106 (v. diligibilis). 10 way of ordering behaviour, means of organizing activity; b (mon.). rectum vivendi ~inem ‥ disseminabat Bede HE IV 2 p. 204; isti jam probati sunt in ‥ observatione omnium que ~o exposcit Simil. Anselmi 79; contrarius ordinis error / et levitas morum non placuere sibi W. Malm. GR V 441; ~o noster crux Christi est. ‥ nihil scienter contra ipsum ~inem facite Ailr. Serm. 11. 31. 263.  b insidie que ab indigenis illarum regionum ea tempestate commeantibus et maxime religiosi ~inis viris struebantur eum non nihil retardabant Eadmer HN 104; Constantem ‥ tradidit in ecclesia Amphybali ‥ ut monachilem ~inem susciperet G. Mon. VI 5; 1157 donec ‥ ad religionis ~inem convertatur Ch. Sal. 26; Basilius ~inem formavit monachorum, Gregorius vitam clericorum R. Niger Chr. II 42; 1204 obtulerunt ut de eadem ecclesia sibi institutionem et ~inem monachalem religionis suscipiant RChart 136b; 1206 etc. custos ~inis (v. custos 8d); 1226 statuentes ut ~o monasticus qui secundum Deum et beati Benedicti regulam ‥ usque observetur (Lit. Papae) Mon. Hib. & Scot. 23b. 11 (eccl) ligurgical order, prescribed form of divine service; b (spec. for ordination to Holy Orders). c (act of) ordination. Dominica die, qua ~o ecclesiasticus ‘oculi mei semper ad Deum’ decantatur Byrht. V. Osw. 467; cum ‥ jam tertium ~inem nocturnorum ‥ dedicaret Gosc. Transl. Mild. 19; 10‥ ~o Romanus. Liber Albini. Psalterium (Catal. librorum) EHR XXXII 389; deinde ~o canonizationis ejus apud Romanam curiam facte et translationis a vobis sollemnissime ut nostis celebrate Canon. G. Sempr. f. 36; a1223 archidiaconi ‥ provideant ‥ quod ‥ ~o Londoniensis ecclesie in officio nocturno et diurno observetur (Const.) EHR XXX 299; est ordo: lex auditur; plebs inde resultat Garl. Myst. Eccl. 515; a1332 tractatus de vij sacrificiis et ~ine misse Libr. Cant. Dov. 30.  b ~ines omni tempore aut in vespera sabbati ‥ celebrentur Ord. Vit. IX 2 p. 464; in dedicationibus ecclesiarum, in celebrationibus ~inum Ad. Eyns. Hug. V 16 p. 188; 1323 pro ~inibus et aliis sacramentis ‥ celebrandis Lit. Cant. I 109; privatus charactere, qui confertur in ~inibus Ockham Dial. 587; precepit episcopis ut cum ~ines ecclesiasticos facerent, quod tempore debito fierent, et hoc in plurimorum presencia Eul. Hist. I 178; 1419 ~ines celebrati in capella infra prioratum ecclesie Christi Cantuarie Reg. Cant. I 191; 1431 septem sunt sacramenta ecclesie sc. baptismus, ~o, confirmacio, matrimonium, eucharistia, uncceo extrema et penitencia Ib. III 222.  c c1340 exceptis tribus septimanis in quibus circa ~ines suos per diversas vices se asserit absentem fuisse FormOx 141; 1446 ratificacio ~inum W. B. quos ab alieno episcopo absque licencia proprii diocesani recepit Stat. Linc. III 491. 12 person who has received ordination, ordained man. b duty or rank of ordained man. Christianis omnibus ‥ convenit sanctuaria et ~ines [AS: hadas, cf. Inst. Cnuti ordinatos] et Deo dicata loca ‥ pacificare, custodire, venerari (Quad.) GAS 284; ad emendationem ~inis ‥ tres libre emendentur (Ib.) Ib. 467.  b priorem ‥ ab administratione et ~inis execucione ammoverunt Graystanes 19; presbyteri ‥ ab executione ~inum ‥ suspendantur Conc. Scot. II 135. 13 kind, sort. in aliis scematum ~inibus Aldh. Met. 10 p. 87; tres ~ines humane conversationis occurrunt, primus naturalis, secundus necessarius, tertius voluntarius Ailr. Spec. Car. III 32. 605; navibus ditissimis, velis sericis cum funiculis ejusdem ~inis ac coloris Eul. Hist. III 12. 14 state, condition. tunc erat ordo bonus, cum floruit iste patronus Greg. Eli. Æthelwold 1. 10.

ōrdō, (6) dĭnis, m.

I ¶ 1 rang, rangée, ligne : ordines (arborum) directi in quincuncem Cic. CM 59, rangs (dʼarbres) disposés en quinconce ; directo ordine Cic. Cæc. 22, en ligne droite ; ordines cæspitum Cæs. G. 5, 51, 4, rangées de mottes de gazon ; alius insuper ordo additur Cæs. G. 7, 23, 3, on ajoute par-dessus une autre couche || rang de rames : terno consurgunt ordine remi Virg. En. 5, 120, les rames se dressent sur un triple rang [en triple étage] || rangée de gradins au théâtre : in quatuordecim ordinibus sedere Cic. Phil. 2, 44, siéger dans les quatorze gradins [attribués aux chevaliers, v. Suet. Aug. 44 ], être chevalier || suite, file de gens : comitum longissimus ordo Juv. 3, 284, une très longue file de compagnons, nombreuse escorte ¶ 2 [milit.] a) rang, ligne, file [de soldats] : ordine egredi Sall. J. 45, 2, sortir du rang ; nullo ordine iter facere Cæs. C. 2, 26, marcher à la débandade ; ordines conturbare Sall. J. 50, 4, jeter la confusion, le désordre dans les rangs ; ordines restituere Sall. J. 51, 3, reformer les rangs ; in ordinem cogere aliquem Liv. 25, 3, 19, forcer un officier à marcher dans le rang, le dégrader, [dʼoù] traiter un magistrat comme un simple particulier, faire fi de lui ; b) centurie : Cæs. G. 1, 40, 1 ; 5, 35, 8 ; C. 1, 13, 4 ; 3, 104, 3 ; c) grade de centurion ; primi ordines, les centurions du plus haut grade [de la 1^re cohorte] : Cæs. G. 5, 30, 1 ; 6, 7, 8 ; inferiores, superiores de grades moins élevés [des cohortes 6 à 9], de grades plus élevés [des cohortes 5 à 2] : Cæs. G. 6, 40, 7 ; infimi Cæs. C. 2, 35, 1, centurions du grade le plus bas [10^e cohorte] ¶ 3 ordre, classe sociale [sénateurs, chevaliers, plébéiens, à Rome] : ordo senatorius Cic. Clu. 104 ; Fl. 43, ou ordo seul Cic. Cat. 1, 20, ordre sénatorial ; in hoc ordine Cic. Phil. 2, 31, ici, au sénat ; frequens ordo Cic. Leg. 3, 40, le sénat en nombre ; amplissimus ordo Cic. Cæl. 5, lʼordre le plus élevé [sénat] ; equester ordo Cic. Domo 74, lʼordre équestre || publicanorum Cic. Fam. 13, 9, 2 ; aratorum, pecuariorum, mercatorum Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 17, la classe des publicains, des laboureurs, des éleveurs, des marchands.

II ¶ 1 ordre, succession : ætatum Cic. Br. 232, la succession chronologique : ordo seriesque causarum Cic. Div. 1, 125, lʼordre et la série des causes ; ordinem sequi Cic. Br. 244, suivre lʼordre des faits, cf. Cic. Phil. 5, 35 ; verborum ordinem immutare Cic. Or. 214, changer lʼordre des mots || ordine, en ordre, point par point : Cic. Part. 2 ; Liv. 3, 50, 4 ; etc. ; ex ordine Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 143, dans lʼordre, suivant lʼordre, à la file, successivement, ou in ordine Virg. En. 8, 629, ou per ordinem Quint. 4, 2, 72 ¶ 2 ordre = bon ordre, distribution régulière, arrangement : ordinem sic definiunt, compositionem rerum aptis et accommodatis locis Cic. Off. 1, 142, ils définissent lʼordre, un arrangement des choses dans les lieux qui leur sont propres et convenables ; rerum ordo Cic. Ac. 1, 17, un enchaînement ordonné des faits ; orationis Cic. Br. 193, la bonne ordonnance dʼun discours || in ordinem adducere Cic. Ac. 2, 118, mettre en ordre ; tabulæ in ordinem confectæ Cic. Com. 7, registres tenus en ordre, régulièrement ; extra ordinem, hors du tour régulier, hors du rang, extraordinairement : Cic. Mil. 14 ; Prov. 19 || ordine, régulièrement : Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 194 ; Att. 12, 18, 3 ; Phil. 3, 38.

ordo , inis. m.
次序。一列。等級。品。相關。 Senatorius ordo vel — amplissimus 議事廳之品。Equester ordo 縉紳品。Nullo ordine 無次序。亂然。不分大小。Homo mei ordinis 吾同等人。 Ordine vel ex ordine 按次序。In ordinem cogere vel redigere 安排。列。Ducere ordines 作把總。Extra ordinem 格外。非常。出等。

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• 1 OL-, a row, line, series, order, rank: arborum derecti in quincuncem ordines: ordines caespitum, courses, Cs.: tot premit ordinibus caput, layers(of ornaments), Iu.: terno consurgunt ordine remi, in three rows of oar-banks, V.: sedisti in quattuordecim ordinibus, i. e. seats of Equites: comitum longissimus ordo, Iu.—A line, rank, array: aciem ordinesque constituere: nullo ordine iter facere, Cs.: nullo ordine commutato, S.: signa atque ordines observare, keep the ranks, S.: multiplicatis in arto ordinibus, L.: nosse ordines, understand tactics, Ta.—Band, troop, company, century: viri qui ordines duxerunt, who have commanded companies: ordinemin exercitu ducere, Cs.—A captaincy, command: mihi decumum ordinem hastatum adsignavit (i. e. centurionem me decimi ordinis hastatorum fecit), L.: tribunis militum primisque ordinibus convocatis, the captains of the first companies, Cs.—An order, rank, class, degree: equester, Cs.: senatorius: in amplissimum ordinem cooptare, into the senate: magna frequentia eius ordinis, S.—A class, rank, station, condition: superioris ordinis nonnulli, Cs.: publicanorum: homo ornatissimus loco, ordine, nomine.—Fig., right order, regular succession: fatum appello ordinem seriemque causarum: mox referam me ad ordinem, return to order: eundem tenere, preserve: immutare, change: perturbare, disturb: decemviri querentes, se in ordinem cogi, i. e. were degraded to the ranks, L.: nec quo prius ordine currunt, in order, as before, O.: ordinem Rectum evagans licentia, H.—In adverb. uses, turn, order, succession, regularity: Hegioni rem enarrato omnem ordine, in detail, T.: tabulae in ordinem confectae: ordine cuncta exposuit, L.: ut quisque . . . ita sententiam dixit ex ordine: Septem totos ex ordine menses, in succession, V.: an recte, ordine, e re p. factum, properly: extra ordinem ad patriam defendendam vocatus, irregularly: spem, quam extra ordinem de te ipso habemus, in an extraordinary degree.

ORDO

ORDOproperly the row,appears most clearly in its original concrete signification in the banks of oars in a ship, in the tiers of tiles on a roof, or in the benches of a theatre (Mommsen, Staatsrecht, 3. p. 459).

In a military sense the word ordo (or its Greek equivalent τάγμα, Plb. 6.24, 5) is used of the manipulus of two centuries (see Liv. 8.8); ordinem ducere means to be a centurion, two of whom held joint command in each maniple (Cic. Phil. 1.8, 20; cf. Liv. 42.34, 5), and ordinarius is said (Festus, s. v.) to be equivalent to manipularis in the sense of a man in the ranks. From this military usage is doubtless derived the phrase in ordinem cogere, which must originally have meant to reduce a man to the ranks, but which is generally used of one who treats with contempt the person or office of a magistrate (Liv. 25.3, 19; 43.16-Z2, 9). It is doubtful whether the word ordo in Cicero's descriptions of the Servian Comitia Centuriata ( pecunias aevitates ordines partiunto equitum peditumque, descriptis ordinibus classibus aetatibus, omnium aetatum ordinumque suffragiis) is to be explained with Mommsen (Staatsr. 3. p. 253, n. 1) as meaning century, or whether it is to be taken (as seems more probable) merely to indicate the two great categories of horse and foot.

In a less technical sense the word is used of any distinct class of persons, as by Cicero (Cic. Ver. 2.6, 17), si cuiquam ordini sive aratorum sive pecuariorum sive mercatorum probatus sit, especially when, as in these cases (ib. 55, 137), the class has a common interest and habits of common action. But it seems to have been felt that it was an improper use of the word, when the category so designated had nothing else in common save the single characteristic indicated in its appellation. Cicero, for instance (in the passage last referred to), seems to deny that the term can be correctly applied to the collective censors of the Sicilian states, or again (Phil. 6.5, 14) to all the persons who have ever served as military tribunes. It is possibly on this ground that the word does not appear to signify the Roman magistrates taken collectively, nor the various grades in the senate,--consulares, praetorii, &c.; though, in a more general sense, Livy (Liv. 23.23, 4) can use it of the categories of persons chosen into the senate--ut ordo ordini, non homo homini praelatus videretur. It seems improbable that we can speak of the Roman priests collectively as ordo sacerdotum; if these words had habitually borne any such meaning, Festus (s. v.) would hardly have used them in an entirely different sense ( .the table of precedence among the priests). The inscription (C. I. L. 6.2010) in which ordo sacerdotumn occurs merely shows that certain officials of the imperial household formed themselves into a religious guild which they thought fit to call by this name. It is very rare again to find ordo designating either of the great classes of patrician and plebeian, though there are exceptions, as where Capito (in Aul. Gell. 10.20) implies it of the patriciate, quoniam in populo omnis pars civitatis omnesque ejus ordines contineantur, plebs vero ea dicitur in qua gentes civium patriciae non insunt, or where Pliny (Plin. Nat.33.29) says, anuli plane tertium ordinem mediumque plebi et patribus inseruere.

On the other hand, the word is constantly applied to the two great dominant classes in the Roman state, the Senate and the Equites, and likewise to the corresponding classes in the municipia, the ordo decurionum and the ordo Augustalium. At Rome the senate and equites are not unfrequently called uterque ordo, just as if no other portion of the state had a claim to this designation. The senate having no fixed meeting-place, a Roman senator did not refer to a speech made therein as being delivered in this house, but in hoc ordine (Sall. Cat. 52, 13). While the word ordo, as applied to the Roman senate, requires a qualifying pronoun, as hic or noster, or a qualifying adjective, as amplissimus, in the municipia ordo written alone indicates the town-council, and is its distinctive appellation as contrasted with the senatus of Rome, just as the local decurio is distinguished from the Roman senator (Mommsen, Staatsr. 3. p. 842).

It is more difficult to decide what, exactly, is meant in each passage by the equester ordo. It is undoubtedly used in some places of the eighteen centuries of Knights, as by Cicero in Phil. 6.5, 13, altera ab equitibus Romanis equo publico, qui item adscribunt patrono.Quem unquam iste ordo patronum adoptavit? Under the Principate this is its common meaning; it is the only sense which will serve in any passage where we find the ordo taking action as a formal and legally constituted corporation (e. g. Tac. Ann. 2.83, 5). If Mommsen be correct in his supposition that the right of sitting on juries was confined to these equites equo publico [see EQUITES], then the phrase is very frequently applied to them in republican times, for the jury-courts are repeatedly said to have been in the possession of the equester ordo. This interpretation is, however, more than doubtful. In very many cases, on the other hand, ordo is used of the equites Romani in the wider sense; of all, that is, who not being senators possessed the qualifying property of 400,000 H. S., and were therefore eligible for the eighteen centuries. We know from Horace (Ep. 1.1, 62) and from Juvenal (3.159) that it was a pecuniary qualification which gave a man the right, under Roscius Otho‘s law, to sit in the front rows of the theatre: but Cicero says of Roscius (Mur. 19, 40), equestri ordini restituit non solum dignitatem sed etiam voluptatem. The wider sense is also far more probable in passages where Cicero speaks of the policy or temper of the order, as (Verr. 3.41, 94) quum aliquid contra utilitatem ejus ordinis fecisset, and again, qui unum equitem Romanum contumelia dignum putasset, ab universo ordine malo dignus judicaretur. Quintus Cicero (de Pet. Cons. 8), speaking of the young men who composed the equestrian centuries, distinguishes them from the ordo in its wider sense--quod equester ordo tuus est, sequentur illi auctoritatem ordinis. (See against this Mommsen, Staatsrecht, iii. pp. 484 and 497.)

The other classes to which the term is applicable can be ascertained only by observing the practice in books and in inscriptions. The expression is very frequently used of the tribuni aerarii, of the libertini (e.g. in Cic. Ver. 1.4. 7, 124, and repeatedly in Livy) and of the publicani (e.g. Liv. 25.3, 12). We have likewise occasionally mentioned an ordo lictorum and an ordo scribarum in Rome (see ref. in Mommsen, Staatsr. 1. p. 342, n. 4), and in the municipia an ordo Seviralium(Orelli, Inscr, 2229). In later times men of any calling who choose to unite themselves into a guild seem to adopt this appellation. Two such guilds are described (C. I. L. 14.251 and 252) with different adjectives of uncertain meaning (tabu lariorum and pleromariorum), but both as ordo corporatorum lenunculariorum auxiliarium (lighter-men) Ostiensium. In C. I. L. 14.2408 we have an ordo adlectorum at Bovillae, referring apparently to the adlecti scaenae, who seem to have been licensed or certificated actors. An ordo haruspicum is mentioned in C. I. L. 6.2161 and 2162: from the first of these we should infer that the order was not strictly localised; for while the donees appear to be at Rome (where the tablet was found), the donor is not only haruspex Augustorum and magister publicus haruspicum, but likewise Pontifex and Dictator of Alba.

It remains to notice some peculiar uses of the words extra ordinem. Praeturae extra ordinem are said by Tacitus (Tac. Ann. 2.32, 1) to have been granted to certain informers. This may mean that extra praetorships were specially invented to suit them, or more probably (as. Nipperdy supposes) that these persons were allowed to anticipate their regular turn for holding that office. In the Lex de Imperio Vespasiani we find that the recommendation of candidates by the emperor is made effective, by the privilege granted them that eorum extra ordinem ratio habeatur; that is to say, they are not to take their chance among the general list of candidates, but to have their case considered specially and first of all [see NOMINATIO]. In criminal procedure, a trial which was to have precedence of all others is said to be taken extra ordinem, and the accused in such a case is extraordinarius reus (Cic. ad Fan. 8.8, 1). In civil procedure, judicia ordinaria are those tried under the formulary system, where the points at issue are referred to a single juror subject to instructions given him by the praetor. When the praetor himself decides without this; reference to a judex, we have a cognitio extra ordinem (Tac. Ann. 13.51); and when (as frequently happened under the principate) such suits became too numerous for the personal attention of the magistrate, the substitute to whom he delegated the task without binding him down by a formula was called judex extra ordinem datus. (See Mommsen, Staatsrecht, ii.3 p. 980, n. 1.)

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Ordo

In a general sense, a row or series of objects. Hence (1), in naval language, a row or tier of oars in a ship, as to which, see navis.

(2) In Roman political language, the word is applied to any body of men forming a distinct and separate class in the community, either as possessing special privileges, or as pursuing some special occupation. Thus, the senators are spoken of collectively as the ordo senatorius, the knights as the ordo equester; the priests (sacerdotes) as ordo sacerdotalis. The plebeians, however, are now spoken of as an ordo. The Senate, being the august body, is sometimes called amplissimus ordo at Rome, and in colonies and municipia the local Senate is ordo decurionum. (See decuriones.) The libertini formed a separate ordo, and so did the scribae, the tribuni aerarii, and the publicani. At Rome the Senate and equestrians are often styled uterque ordo, as being the orders par excellence.

(3) In military language, the word is applied to a company or troop of soldiers, and is used as equivalent to centuria, as the first centuries in a legion are sometimes called primi ordines. See legio.