Locutions, idioms and examples
XV milia passuum circuitu amplexus || associo passus alicui || adsociat passus || milia passuum || admisso passu || rapidisque feruntur passibus || rapidis … feruntur passibus || capillus passus or capilli or crines passi || bina milia passuum || ab milibus passuum minus duobus =
less than two miles
|| ab Avarico longe milia passuum XVI =
sixteen miles away from Avaricum
|| V milia passuum proxima intercedere itineris campestris || tacito passu labentibus anni || amplius quinis milibus passuum || gradum or passus, or pedem profero || a Larino decem milia passuum absum =
to be 10 thousand steps from Larino
|| castra a Fidenis mille passuum locat || absum ab Urbe milia passuum ducenta =
to be two hundred miles away from Rome
|| ab castris non amplius milia (or milibus) passuum decem abesse =
to be far from the camp no more than ten miles
|| a milibus passuum minus duobus castra posuerunt =
they palced the encampment at less than two miles
|| Caesar cum ab hoste non amplius passuum XII milibus abesset || biduo aut triduo septingenta milia passuum ambulo || ab hostium castris non longius mille et quingentis passibus abesse =
not more than one thousand and five hundred steps from the enemy camp
|| a milibus passuum quinque itinera difficilia atque augusta excipiebant =
five miles from there arduos and narrow streets followed immediately
|| Ariovisti copias a nostris milibus passuum quattuor et viginti abesse || caesi hostes decem milia passuum cadaveribus opplevere || ab oppido declivis locus tenui fastigio vergebat in longitudinem passuum CCCC =
from the cities the ground sloped down slightly through the length of four hundred steps
|| abest derecto itinere ab Utica paulo amplius passus mille =
it lies a little more than one mile away from Utica in a straight line
|| a lacu Lemano ad montem Iuram milia passuum XVIIII murum perducit =
he had a wall 19 thousand steps in lenght traced, from the Lake Geneva lake to the Jura mountain
|| certior factus hostes monte consedisse milia passum ab ipsius castris octo || castra, ut fumo atque ignibus significabatur, amplius milibus passuum octo … patebant
