Béllicus, Adiectiuum, penult. cor. Pertayning to warre: warlike: marciall. vt, Bellica disciplina. Cicer.Skill to gouerne in warre.Bellica corona. Plin. A garland giuen to the victour.Bellica virtus.Cic. Laus bellica. Cic.Manus bellica.Ouid.Equus bellicus. Propert. A horse for warre.Hasta bellica.Ouid.Nauis bellica. Propert. A shippe of warre. Bellicum, Substantiuum.Liu.The sowne of the trumper warning to battaile.Bellicum canere.Cic.To blow to the battaile: and by a metaphor to animate: to encourage: to stirre vp: to make discention or debate.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
bellĭcus (duellĭcus), a, um, adj. [bellum], of or pertaining to war, war-, military.I. In gen. A.Lit.: ars duellica, Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 14: bellicam rem administrari majores nostri nisi auspicato noluerunt, Cic. Div. 2, 36, 76; Hor. C. 4, 3, 6; Suet. Calig. 43: disciplina, Cic. N. D. 2, 64, 161: jus, id. Off. 3, 29, 107: virtus, id. Mur. 10, 22: laus,
, Claud. Laus. Seren. 196: columella. Fest. p. 27; cf. Bellona.— Hence, subst.: bellĭcum, i, n., a signal for march or for the beginning of an attack (given by the trumpet); always in the connection bellicum canere, to give the signal for breaking up camp, for an attack, for commencing hostilities: Philippum, ubi primum bellicum cani audisset, arma capturum, at the first signal will be ready to take arms, etc., Liv 35, 18, 6: simul atque aliqui motus novus bellicum canere coepit,
causes the war-trumpet to sound
, Cic. Mur. 14, 30; Just. 12, 15, 11; App de Mundo, p. 71, 37.—B.Trop.: idem bellicum me cecinisse dicunt. aroused, incited, Cic. Phil. 7, 1, 3.—And of fiery, inflammatory discourse: alter (Thucydides) incitatior fertur et de bellicis rebus canit etiam quodammodo bellicum,
sounds the alarm
, Cic. Or 12, 39: non eosdem modos adhibent, cum bellicum est canendum, et cum posito genu supplicandum est, Quint. 9, 4, 11; 10, 1, 33. —II.Transf., poet., = bellicosus, warlike, fierce in war: Pallas, Ov. M. 5, 46: dea, id. ib. 2, 752; id. F. 3, 814: virgo, id. M. 4, 754: Mars, id. F. 3, 1: deus, i.e.