I.containing or comprising a thousand.
I. Adj.: “decuriae,” Varr. L. L. 9, § 87 Müll.: “greges,” id. R. R. 2, 10: “clivus,” of a thousand paces, id. ib. 3, 1: “apri,” weighing a thousand pounds, Sen. Ep. 110, 12: “oleae,” Plin. 17, 12, 19, § 93: “ala,” of a thousand men, Plin. Ep. 7, 31: “COHORS, Inscr Grut. 482, 4: porticus,” a thousand feet in length, Suet. Ner. 31: aevum, of a thousand years, Tert Anim 31.—
II. Subst.
1. A mile-stone (which indicated a distance of a thousand paces, i. e. a Roman mile): “cum plebes prope ripam Anienis ad tertium miliarium consedisset,” Cic. Brut. 14, 54: “intra primum urbis Romae miliarium,” Gai. Inst. 4, 104: “intra centesimum urbis Romae miliarium,” within a hundred miles of Rome, id. ib. 1, 27.—In partic.: miliarium or miliarium aureum, the mile-stone set up by Augustus in the forum, as the terminal point of all military roads: “mille passus non a miliario Urbis, sed a continentibus aedificiis numerandi sunt,” Dig. 50, 16, 154; Suet. Oth. 6; Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 66; Tac. H. 1, 27.—Plur: “miliaria lapidea,” Aug. Serm. 351, 11.—
(β).
Transf., a Roman mile, a mile, Suet. Ner. 31.—
2. The number one thousand, a thousand, Varr. L. L. 9, § 82 Müll.: annorum, a space of a thousand years, Aug. Civ. Dei, 20, 7.—
