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pedester

  • 1 pedester

    pĕdester, tris, tre ( masc. pedestris, Nep. Eum. 4, 3; Vop. Prob. 21, 1), adj. [id.], on foot, that goes, is done, etc., on foot, pedestrian.
    I.
    Lit.:

    gratior illi videtur statua pedestris futura, quam equestris,

    Cic. Phil. 9, 6:

    equestres et pedestres copiae,

    foot-soldiers, infantry, id. Fin. 2, 34, 112:

    copiae,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 17 al.; Tac. H. 2, 11 fin.; so,

    pedester exercitus,

    Nep. Eum. 4, 3:

    pedestre scutum,

    of a foot-soldier, Liv. 7, 10:

    pugna,

    id. 22, 47:

    proelium duplex equestre ac pedestre commisit,

    Suet. Dom. 4:

    pedestris acies,

    Tac. A. 2, 17.—
    2.
    In plur. subst. pedestres, foot-soldiers, Just. 11, 9; people on foot, Vulg. Matt. 14, 13; id. Marc. 6, 33.—
    3.
    Pedestria auspicia nominabantur, quae dabantur a vulpe, lupo, equo, ceterisque animalibus quadrupedibus, Paul. ex Fest. p. 244 Müll.—
    B.
    Transf., on land, by land:

    pedestres navalesque pugnae,

    Cic. Sen. 5:

    pedestria itinera,

    the roads by land, Caes. B. G. 3, 9; cf. id. B. C. 2, 32:

    proelia pedestria,

    Just. 4, 4, 4:

    transitus,

    Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 101; Mart. Spect. 28. —
    II.
    Trop., of style, like the Gr. pezos, not rising above the ground, not elevated.
    A.
    Written in prose, prose (Gr. idiom;

    Lat. prosa oratio): Plato multum supra prosam orationem et quam pedestrem Graeci vocant, surgit,

    Quint. 10, 1, 81:

    pedestres historiae,

    Hor. C. 2, 12, 9.—
    B.
    Plain, common, without poetic flights, without pathos, prosaic:

    dolet sermone pedestri Telephus,

    Hor. A. P. 95:

    quid prius inlustrem satiris musāque pedestri,

    id. S. 2, 6, 17 (for which:

    sermones Repentes per humum,

    id. Ep. 2, 1, 251):

    opus,

    Aus. Ep. 16, 78:

    fabulae,

    Ter. Maur. p. 2433 P.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > pedester

  • 2 pedester

        pedester tris, tre, adj.    [pes], on foot, pedestrian, C.: copiae, infantry: exercitus, N.: scutum, of a foot-soldier, L.: acies, V.— On land, by land: pedestres navalesque pugnae: itinera, the roads by land, Cs.—Fig., not elevated, not versified, in prose: historiae, H.— Plain, common, prosaic: sermo, H.: musa, H.
    * * *
    pedestris, pedestre ADJ
    infantry-, of foot-soldiers; walking; on foot/land; pedestrian; pedestrian; prosaic, commonplace; prose-

    Latin-English dictionary > pedester

  • 3 exercitus

        exercitus ūs （dat. ū, Cs., L.; gen plur. tūm, L.)    [exerceo], a disciplined body of men, army: terrestris, L.: tiro, L.: pedester, N.: exercitum dimittere, T.: comparare: parare, S.: scribere, L.: contrahere, Cs.: ducere: cum exercitu venit: exercitum equitatumque castris continuit, infantry, Cs.: exercitūs conveniunt, S.— A multitude, host, swarm, flock: corvorum, V.
    * * *
    army, infantry; swarm, flock

    Latin-English dictionary > exercitus

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