militate
Dictionary entries
- Entry →milito, militare, militavi, militatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Military
serve as soldier, perform military service, serve in the army; wage/make war;
voc. sg. perf. pass. part.pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Aeneid II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...includunt caeco lateri penitusque cavernas ingentis uterumque armato milite complent. est in conspectu Tenedos, notissima fama insula, dives..."Aeneid III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Narycii posuerunt moenia Locri, et Sallentinos obsedit milite campos Lyctius Idomeneus; hic illa ducis Meliboei parva Philoctetae subnixa..."Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...moenia cingere flammis. bis septem Rutuli muros qui milite servent delecti, ast illos centeni quemque sequuntur purpurei cristis..."Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...conuexo in tramite silvae, ut bivias armato obsidam milite fauces. tu Tyrrhenum equitem conlatis excipe signis; tecum acer..."In Catilinam II
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...nitent unguentis, qui fulgent purpura, mallem secum suos milites eduxisset; qui si hic permanent, mementote non tam exercitum..."Metamorphoses V
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...nondum tota me mente recepi. Daulida Threicio Phoceaque milite rura ceperat ille ferox iniustaque regna tenebat; templa petebamus..."Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...nato secura recepto: bella parat Minos; qui quamquam milite, quamquam classe valet, patria tamen est firmissimus ira Androgeique..."Res Gestae II
Caesar Augustus from Res Gestae Divi Augusti
"...Caninio ~ et Q. Fabricio co[s.], milit[i]bus, quos emeriteis stipendis in sua municpi[a dedux..."