Sodalis, huius sodâlis, pen. prod. Cic.A fellowe or companyon at meales & pastime. Of one fraternitie, cõpany or colledge.Chari sodales. Horat. Dilecti.Ouid. Ingrati sodales. Iuuenal. Fidus sodalis, Ouid. Iucundus sodalis. Ouid.Vnanimes sodales turbare odijs. Claud. Se alicui sodalem facere. Marr. Sodales. Caius lurecons. Felowes of one colledge or society.In sodalibus illis es.Plaut.Ille sodalis istius crat in hoc morbo & cupidirate. Cice. He had the same disease and couetous affection that this mã had: or he was faultye in that poynt as well as this man.Turba sodalis.Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
sŏdālis, is (abl., regularly, sodali; sodale, Mart. 1, 86, 5; Plin. Ep. 2, 13, 6), comm. [cf. Sanscr. svadhā, will, power; Gr. e)/qos, custom; v. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 251]. I. In gen., a mate, fellow, intimate, comrade, crony, boon-companion, etc. (freq.and class.; a favorite word with Plautus; cf.: socius, familiaris): tuos amicus et sodalis, Plaut. Merc. 2, 4, 7: hic sodalis tuos amicus optimus, id. Cas. 3, 3, 18; so (with amicus) id. Bacch. 3, 3, 71: sodalem me esse scis gnato tuo, id. Most. 5, 2, 32: sex sodales repperi, Vitam, amicitiam, etc., id. Merc. 5, 2, 4: quid enim aut illo fidelius amico aut sodale jucundius?Plin. Ep. 2, 13, 6: si frater aut sodalis esset, Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 74: sodalis et familiarissimus Dolabellae, Lentul. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 14, 7: primum habui semper sodales. Sodalitates autem me quaestore constitutae sunt sacris Idaeis ... epulabar igitur cum sodalibus omnino modice, etc. (shortly after: coetu amicorum), Cic. Sen. 13, 45: popularis et sodalis, id. Ac. 2, 37, 118: meus sodalis, id. de Or. 2, 49, 200: adulescentes aliquot, aequales sodalesque: adulescentium Tarquiniorum, Liv. 2, 3: in urbem reversus sodalibus legi, Plin. Ep. 7, 4, 7: Pompei meorum prime sodalium, Hor. C. 2, 7, 5: gaudentem parvisque sodalibus et lare certo Et ludis, id. Ep. 1, 7, 58: sodalis istius (Verris) in hoc morbo et cupiditate, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 36, 91: veterem tutare sodalem, Ov. P. 2, 4, 33: O jucunde sodalis, id. ib. 1, 8, 25: dilectos inter sors prima sodalis, id. Tr. 4, 5, 1.—b. In the poets, adject.: turba sodalis,
the band of friends
, Ov. R. Am. 586.—Of things: Hebrus, Hor. C. 1, 25, 19: cratera, id. ib. 3, 18, 6.—II. In partic. A.A fellow or member of a corporation, society, fraternity, college, etc.: sodales sunt, qui ejusdem collegii sunt, quam Graeci e(tairi/an vocant, Dig. 47, 12, 4.—Of the members of a college of priests: sodales in Lupercis, Cic. Cael. 11, 26: Sodales Titii, Tac. A. 1, 54: Augustales, id. ib. 3, 64; Suet. Claud. 6; id. Galb. 8; Inscr. Orell. 2364 sq.; 1588; 1593; 1611 et saep.—B. In a bad sense, a participator, accomplice in unlawful secret associations (esp. for buying votes, plotting against the State, etc.): quos tu si sodales vocas, officiosam amicitiam nomine inquinas criminoso, Cic. Planc. 19, 46: tu in illis es decem sodalibus: Te in exsilium ire hinc oportet, Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 12.—2.A gallant, Mart. 9, 3, 8; Hier. adv. Juv. 1, 48.