mīlīārīus or millĭārĭus, a, um, adj. [mille], 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.
A mīlĭārĭum (mill- ), ii, n.
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.—
B mīlĭārĭi ( mill- ), ōrum, m., a Christian sect who believed in the doctrine of a millennial kingdom, the Millenarians, Chiliasts , Aug. Haeres. 8; id. Civ. Dei, 20, 7, 1; Hier. praef. libri 18 in Isa. 66, 33.