The corpus record — Latin

milito

milito · v. n

to be a soldier, to perform military service, to serve as a soldier

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Where it lives

Precationes 1 · 21.6/10k
Antoninus Caracallus 2 · 9.79/10k
Helvius Pertinax 2 · 7.69/10k
Probus 3 · 7.28/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
De Pallio 2 · 5.84/10k
Severus 2 · 4.75/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 1 · 3.77/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
Epidicus 2 · 3.07/10k

Densest 12 of 81 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mīlĭto — Lewis & Short

mīlĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n.miles,

I to be a soldier, to perform military service, to serve as a soldier (syn.: stipendium mereo; class.).

I Lit.: in cujus exercitu Catonis filius tiro militabat, Cic. Off. 1, 11, 36: sub signis alicujus, Liv. 23, 42: adversus aliquem, Suet. Caes. 68: apud Persas, Curt. 6, 5, 7: vobiscum, id. 8, 8, 11: si inter vigiles Romae Sex annis militaverit, Ulp. Fragm. 3, 5.—

II Transf.

1 To make war, wage war, war against; pass., with a homogeneous subject: libenter hoc et omne militabitur Bellum, Hor. Epod. 1, 23. —

2 Of other than military service: at confidentia militia illa militatur multo magis quam pondere, Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 50; Ov. H. 7, 32: vixi puellis nuper idoneus, Et militavi non sine gloriā, Hor. C. 3, 26, 1: prima stipendia Veneri militabant, App. M. 9, p. 226, 9: militat in silvis catulus, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 67.—Of an inanim. subject: aries machina est, quae muros frangere militat, serves, Tert. Pall. 1; cf.: carnalia desideria, quae militant adversus animam, Vulg. 1 Pet. 2, 11.

Where it came from

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