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bellĭcōsus (duellĭc- ), a, um, adj. bellicus,
I.warlike, martial, valorous (mostly poet.; usu. of personal subjects; cf. “bellicus): gentes immanes et barbarae et bellicosae,Cic. Prov. Cons. 13, 33: “bellicosissimae nationes,id. Imp. Pomp. 10, 28; id. Fam. 5, 11, 3; Caes. B. G. 1, 10; 4, 1; Sall. J. 18, 12; Nep. Ham. 4, 1; Hor. C. 2. 11, 1; “3, 3, 57: provincia,Caes. B. C. 1, 85; Quint. 1, 10, 20: “civitas,Suet. Gram. 1: “fortissimus quisque ac bellicosissimus,Tac. G. 15. —Comp., Liv. 37, 8, 4.—Trop.: “quod multo bellicosius erat Romanam virtutem ferociamque cepisse, i. e. fortius,Liv. 9, 6, 13: “bellicosior annus,a more warlike year, id. 10, 9, 10 (cf. the opp. imbellis annus, id. 10, 1, 4).—Adv. not in use.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (13):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 5.11.3
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 1.10
    • Cicero, On Pompey's Command, 10.28
    • Cicero, On the Consular Provinces, 13.33
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 10, 1.4
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 10, 9.10
    • Caesar, Civil War, 1.85
    • Tacitus, Germania, 15
    • Cornelius Nepos, Hamilcar, 4.1
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 37, 8.4
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 9, 6
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 10.20
    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 18
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