I.one that is or goes on foot.
I. In gen.: “etiam si pedes incedat,” on foot, afoot, Liv. 28, 9, 15: “cum pedes iret in hostem,” Verg. A. 6, 881: “silvā pedes errat in altā,” Ov. M. 14, 364.—Esp., apposit.: “etiam si pedes incedat,” Liv. 28, 9, 15: “Macedones sciverunt ne (Alexander) pedes venaretur,” Curt. 8, 1, 18: “ipse equo desiluit, pedesque per nives ingredi coepit,” id. 5, 6, 14: “agmen circumibat pedes,” id. 7, 3, 17.—
II. In partic.
A. A foot-soldier: “postulavit ne quem peditem ad colloquium Caesar adduceret,” Caes. B. G. 1, 42: equitum et peditum copiae, foot-soldiers, foot, Pomp. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 12, C, 1: “tria milia et septingenti pedites ierunt,” Liv. 35, 40, 5.—
2. Collect., in sing., foot-soldiers, infantry. cum pedes concurrit, Liv. 30, 34: “in pedite robur,” Tac. Agr. 12: “simul pedes, eques, classis apud praedictum amnem convenere,” Tac. A. 1, 60; id. H. 4, 70.—
3. Transf.: equites pedites, as a general designation for the entire people; cf. colloq. Engl. horse, foot, and dragoons: “equitum peditumque prolem describunto,” Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 7: “omnes cives Romani equites peditesque,” Liv. 1, 44: “Romani tollent equites peditesque cachinnum,” Hor. A. P. 113.— In sing.: “quodvis genus hominum ibi videas, equitem, peditem,” Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 10.—
B. A land-soldier (opp. to a marine, classicus): “classicae peditumque expeditiones,” Vell. 2, 121, 1.
