The corpus record — Latin

alarius

alarius · adj

that is upon the wing

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Where it lives

De Bello Civili 2 · 0.62/10k
Annales 5 · 0.56/10k
De bello Gallico 2 · 0.39/10k
Ab urbe condita 5 · 0.1/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ālārĭus — Lewis & Short

ālārĭus, a, um (less freq. ālāris, e), adj.ala.—In milit. lang.,

I that is upon the wing (of an army), of the wing (opp. legionarii, v. ala, II. E.): cohortes alariae et legionariae, i. e. of the allies, Caes. B. C. 1, 73: cum cohortibus alariis, Liv. 10, 40 Weissenb.: alarii equites, id. 40, 40; so Tac. A. 3, 39; 4, 73; 12, 27 al.—Subst., the form ālārĭus, * Cic. Fam. 2, 17: ut ad speciem alariis uteretur, auxiliaries, allies, Caes. B. G. 1, 51.—The form ālāris, e: inter legionarios aut alares, Tac. H. 2, 94: alares Pannonii, id. A. 15, 10: alares exterruit, id. ib. 15, 11.

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