I.of or belonging to companionship.
I. In gen., companionable, sociable, social (so not ante-Aug.): “homo sociale animal,” Sen. Ben. 7, 1, 8: “beneficium dare socialis res est,” id. ib. 5, 11, 4: “amicitiae,” App. M. 5, p. 171, 20.—
II. In partic.
A. Of or belonging to allies or confederates, allied, confederate (the class. signif. of the word): “lex,” Cic. Div. in Caecil. 5, 18: “lex judiciumque,” Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 6, § 15: “foedus,” Liv. 34, 57: “exercitus,” i. e. of the allies, id. 31, 21: “coetus,” id. 7, 25: “equitatus,” id. 26, 5; so, “turmae,” Tac. A. 4, 73: “copiae (opp. legiones),” i. e. auxiliaries, id. ib. 12, 31: “bellum,” the war of the allies, Liv. Epit. 71 fin.; Flor. 3, 18, 1; Juv. 5, 31: “cuncta socialia prospere composita,” the affairs of the allies, Tac. A. 2, 57.—
B. In Ovid several times like conjugialis, of marriage, conjugal, nuptial: “amor socialis,” Ov. M. 7, 800; “(with foedus maritum),” id. P. 3, 1, 73: “Livia sic tecum sociales compleat annos,” id. Tr. 2, 161: “foedera,” id. M. 14, 380; id. H. 4, 17: “torus,” id. F. 2, 729: “jura,” id. Am. 3, 11, 45: “sacra,” id. H. 21, 155: “carmina, i. e. epithalamium,” id. ib. 12, 139.—Hence, adv.: sŏ-cĭālĭter , socially: non ut de sede secundā Cederet aut quartā socialiter (iambus), for the sake of company (perh. ἅπ. εἰρημ.), Hor. A. P. 258.