_bellum parare_—to make preparations for war.
_apparatus_ (rare in plur.) _belli_—preparations for war; war-material.
_bellum indīcere, denuntiare_—to make formal declaration of war.
_res repetere (ab aliquo)_ (Off. 1. 11. 36)—to demand satisfaction,
restitution.
_res reddere (alicui)_ (cf. sect. V. 11)—to make restitution.
_bellum iustum (pium)_—a regular, formal war.
_bellum intestinum, domesticum_ (opp. _bellum externum_)—a civil war.
_bellum facere, movere, excitare_—to cause a war.
_bellum conflare_ (Fam. 5. 2. 8)—to kindle a war.
_bellum moliri_—to meditate war.
_bellum incipere, belli initium facere_ (B. G. 7. 1. 5)—to commence
hostilities.
_bello se interponere_ (Liv. 35. 48)—to interfere in a war.
_bello implicari_—to be involved in a war.
_bellum cum aliquo inire_—to begin a war with some one.
_bellum impendet, imminet, instat_—a war is imminent.
_bellum oritur, exardescit_—war breaks out.
_omnia bello flagrant_ or _ardent_ (Fam. 4. 1. 2)—everywhere the torch
of war is flaming.
_bellum gerere cum aliquo_—to make war on a person.
_bellum coniungere_ (Imp. Pomp. 9. 26)—to wage war in conjunction with
some one.
_bellum ducere, trahere, extrahere_—to protract, prolong a war.
_omni studio in (ad) bellum incumbere_—to carry on a war energetically.
_bellum inferre alicui_ (Att. 9. 1. 3)—to invade.
_bellum_ or _arma ultro inferre_—to be the aggressor in a war; to act
on the offensive.
_bellum (inlatum) defendere_—to act on the defensive.
_proficisci ad bellum, in expeditionem_ (Sall. Iug. 103)—to go to war,
commence a campaign.
_mittere ad bellum_—to send to the war.
_bellum administrare_—to have the control of the war.
_bello persequi aliquem, lacessere_—to harass with war.
_belli finem facere, bellum finire_—to put an end to war.
_bellum conficere, perficere_—to terminate a war (by force of arms and
defeat of one's opponents).
_bellum componere_ (Fam. 10. 33)—to terminate a war (by a treaty, etc.)
_bellum transferre alio, in..._—to transfer the seat of war elsewhere.
_belli sedes_ (Liv. 4. 31)—the seat of war, theatre of operations.
_rationem belli gerendi mutare_ (Liv. 32. 31)—to change one's tactics.