mīlitāris, e, adj. [miles],
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 Caes.), Liv. 4, 41; 27, 3; Tac. H. 2, 80; Dig. 49, 16, 4, § 9.