Aliger, Adiectiuum, pen. cor. ex Ala, & Gero compositum. Pli. Wearing winges.Agmen aligerum. Id est aues. Virg.Aliger Arcas, pro Mercurio.Stat.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ālĭger, gĕra, gĕrum (gen. plur. aligerūm, Val. Fl. 7, 171), adj. [ala-gero], bearing wings, winged (a poet. word of the Aug. per.). I.Adj.: amor, Verg. A. 1, 663: agmen, i. e.
of birds
, id. ib. 12, 249: aligero tollitur axe Ceres, upon the winged chariot (i. e. drawn by dragons), Ov. F. 4, 562: Jovis Nuntius, i. e.
Mercury
, Stat. S. 3, 3, 80: genus, Sen. Hippol. 338 al.—In the prose of Pliny, like many other poet. words: aligeri serpentes, Plin. 12, 19, 42, 85: Cupidines, id. 36, 5, 4, 41.—II. Ālĭgĕri, subst., the winged gods of love, Cupids, Sil. 7, 458.