regredi

Metello, interdum Mario ostendere, postremo in agmine temptare ac statim in colles regredi, rursus aliis, post aliis minitari, neque proelium facere neque otium pati, tantummodo hostem ab incepto retinere.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

I cannot boast of advancement, and in cases of convalescence it may be said, with few exceptions, non progredi, est regredi.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887