Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

I.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,” military ensigns, standards, id. Cat. 2, 6, 13: “ornatus,” id. Off. 1, 18, 61: “leges,” id. Fl. 32, 77: “animi,” Tac. A. 1, 32: “sepimentum,” Varr. 1, 14, 2: “ire militaribus gradibus,” to march, 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.