ordo (noun 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).
* 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. Caecil. 8, 22; id. Sen. 17, 59.
* 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, 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.
* Transf. concr.
* Ordine, in ordinem, per ordinem, in ordine, ex ordine, in order, in turn: Hegioni rem enarrato omnem ordine,Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 53; Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 17; Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 28: 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.
* Ordine, regularly, properly, appropriately: omnia ut quidque Egisti ordine scio,Plaut. Ps. 5, 2, 15: rem demonstravi ordine,id. Mil. 3, 3, 2; id. Capt. 2, 3, 17 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.
* 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.
* Extra ordinem.
* 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.
* Extraordinarily, i. e. uncommonly, eminently, especially: ad eam spem, quam extra ordinem de te ipso habemus, accedunt tua praecipua,Cic. Fam. 6, 5, 3.
* In gen.
* 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.
* In milit. lang.
* A train of servants or attendants: comitum longissimus ordo,Juv. 3, 284.
* In a polit. respect, an order, i. e. a rank, class, degree of citizens: et meus med ordo inrideat,Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 55.—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.
* 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
* 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.
* Ordines, chieftains, captains: tribunis militum primisque ordinibus convocatis,the captains of the first companies,Caes. B. G. 6, 7 fin.; Liv. 30, 4, 1.
* In gen., a class, rank, station, condition: mearum me rerum aequom'st novisse ordinem,Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 50: publicanorum,Cic. Fam. 13, 9, 2: aratorum, pecuariorum, mercatorum,Cic. 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.
* 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.

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