Declining
This is the nominative, singular, feminine form of fortis, forte.
What is fortis?
This kind of number is used for ranking things.
What is an ordinal number?
This is the meaning of committo, committere, commisi, commissum.
What is to entrust or commit?
These were "Marius's Mules."
Who were the soldiers who had to carry their own gear?
This is the nominative, plural, neuter form of potens, GEN potentis.
What is potentia?
This special construction is used to show how many things out of a larger group are doing something.
What is the ablative with numbers?
This is the meaning of celer, celeris, celere.
What is swift, fast, quick?
This was one of the causes of mass homelessness for veterans after the Punic Wars.
What were veterans' farms being foreclosed on while on campaign, the nobility buying all the land, or massive influxes of cheap slaves taking the farming jobs?
What is celerī?
This is how a number adjective shows what noun it is paired with, or modifying.
What is by being placed immediately before the noun?
This is the meaning of acer, acris, acre.
What is keen, eager, sharp, severe, or fierce?
This was how Gaius Gracchus got revenge for his brother's murder.
What was by making a retroactive law that made it illegal to execute public officials without a full trial?
This is the ablative, plural, feminine form of duo, duae, duo.
What is duabus?
All 3rd declension adjectives use the exact same endings except for in this form.
What is in the nominative singular form?
This is the meaning of itaque.
What is and so or therefore?
This was the kingdom that Jugurtha attempted to take over with the assistance of corrupt Roman officials.
What was Numidia?
Triple points!
These are mille in genitive, singular, masculine form; accusative, singular, feminine form; and ablative, singular, neuter form, respectively.
What are mille, mille, and mille?
While the ablative of time when is generally used to show when something happened in the past, this construction shows an estimate of how long something will take in the future.
What is the ablative of time within which?
This is the meaning of iacio, iacere, ieci, iactum.
What is to throw, hurl, or yeet?
This Roman general was betrayed by his friend and 2nd in command, who lied about how he conducted the war in order to win the consulship.
Who was Metellus?
(Side note, was betrayed by Marius, who himself was betrayed by Sulla.)