bellicus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →bellicus, bellica, bellicum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Military
of war, military; warlike; [~um canere => sound attack horn/begin hostilities];
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...procul galeae micantes: tela faciebat dolor. inuenit artes bellicus Mauors nouas et mille formas mortis. hinc terras cruor..."
Liber Duodecimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...robora uilem struxerunt de more rogum, sed bellicus agger curribus et clipeis Graiorumque omnibus armis sternitur; hostiles super..."Liber Septimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...planxisse Palaemona ponto. haec audit Pelopea phalanx, sed bellicus ardor consiliis obstat diuum prohibetque timeri. iam ripas, Asope..."Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...tibia cornu et magicae fraudes, ut, quos non bellicus ensis, non tuba terruerit, non strictis agmina telis, femineae..."