Milito, militas, pen. cor. militâre. Plaut.To goe on warfare: to be in warres.Qui in edem legione militabar. Cic.Which was a souldi. our of the same legion.Didicit sub Anmbale militare. Plin. He was trained vppe in the feates of warre vnder Aunibal.Iuuentus omnis sub signis militat tuis.Liu.Militare mercede. Curtius. To be a souldiour in wages.Catulus militar in syluis. Horat.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mīlitāris, e, adj. [miles], of or belonging to a soldier, to war, or to military service, proper to or usual with soldiers, military, warlike, martial (class.): militares pueri,
soldiers' children, officers' sons
, Plaut. Truc. 5, 16: homo, id. Ep. 1, 1, 14: advena, id. Ps. 4, 1, 20: tribuni, Cic. Clu. 36, 99: vir, Tac. H. 2, 75: homines, Sall. C. 45, 2.— Also subst.: mīlĭtāris, is, m., a military man, soldier, warrior: cur neque militaris Inter aequales equitat?Hor. C. 1, 8, 5: praesidia militarium, Tac. A. 14, 33.—Of inanim. and abstr. things: panis, Plin. 18, 7, 12, 67: institutum, Caes. B. C. 3, 75: usus, id. ib. 3, 103: res, id. B. G. 1, 21: disciplina, Liv. 8, 34: labor, Cic. Mur. 5, 11: signa,
, Plaut. Ps. 4, 4, 11: aetas, the age for bearing arms (from the seventeenth to the forty-sixth year), Liv. 25, 5: via,
a military road, a highway on which an army can march
, id. 36, 15: herba, an herb good for wounds, also called millefolium, Plin. 24, 18, 104, 168.—Also an appellation of Jupiter, App. de Mundo, p. 75.—In comp.: quis justior et militarior Scipione?
more militarily strict
, Tert. Apol. 11 fin.—Hence, adv.: mīlĭtārĭter, in a soldierly or military manner (rare; not in Cic. or Cæs.), Liv. 4, 41; 27, 3; Tac. H. 2, 80; Dig. 49, 16, 4, 9.
mīlĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. [miles], to be a soldier, to perform military service, to serve as a soldier (syn.: stipendium mereo; class.). I.Lit.: in cujus exercitu Catonis filius tiro militabat, Cic. Off. 1, 11, 36: sub signis alicujus, Liv. 23, 42: adversus aliquem, Suet. Caes. 68: apud Persas, Curt. 6, 5, 7: vobiscum, id. 8, 8, 11: si inter vigiles Romae Sex annis militaverit, Ulp. Fragm. 3, 5.—II.Transf.1.To make war, wage war, war against; pass., with a homogeneous subject: libenter hoc et omne militabitur Bellum, Hor. Epod. 1, 23. —2. Of other than military service: at confidentia militia illa militatur multo magis quam pondere, Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 50; Ov. H. 7, 32: vixi puellis nuper idoneus, Et militavi non sine gloriā, Hor. C. 3, 26, 1: prima stipendia Veneri militabant, App. M. 9, p. 226, 9: militat in silvis catulus, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 67.—Of an inanim. subject: aries machina est, quae muros frangere militat,
serves
, Tert. Pall. 1; cf.: carnalia desideria, quae militant adversus animam, Vulg. 1 Pet. 2, 11.