Gregarius, Adiectiuum. Of the common flocke or sorte. vt, Gregarius miles. Salust.A common souldiout.Gregatius pastor. Columel.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
grĕgārĭus, a, um, adj. [id.], of or belonging to a flock or herd.I.Lit.: gregariorum pastorum disciplinam repudiasse, Col. 6 praef. 1.—II.Transf., in gen., of the common sort, common (most freq. in milit. lang.): milites, common soldiers, privates, in opp. to the officers: id etiam gregarii milites faciunt inviti, ut, etc., Cic. Planc. 30, 72; Sall. C. 38, 6; Curt. 7, 2; and in sing.: miles, Liv. 42, 34, 5; Tac. H. 5, 1: eques, id. ib. 3, 51: gregariam militiam sortitus, Just. 22, 1.—Rarely beyond the milit. sphere: poëta, Sid. Ep. 9, 15.
grĕgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [id.], to collect into a flock or herd, to gather into a host, to collect, assemble (poet. and only postAug.): Levitas ad se gregavit, Sulp. Sev. Chron. 1, 19, 6: Idaliae volucres caeloque domoque gregatae, Stat. Achill. 1, 373: oves, Paul. Nol. Carm. 17, 200: solus qui caedibus hausi Quinquaginta animas: totidem totidemque gregati Ferte manus, all together, Stat. Th. 8, 668 (al. gregatim).