I.pillar-wise, with pillars.
I. Lit.: “pilatim aedificia agere,” Vitr. 6, 11, 4.—
II. Transf., in milit. lang., in close bodies, in solid columns: sive pilatim, sive passim iter facere volebat, Asellio ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 12, 121: pilatim exercitum duxi, Scaur. ib.; cf. 1. pilo, and, under it, pilatus.