(adj.Subst.) : armĭger (ARMIGERVS in a late inscr., Orell. 3631), gĕra, gĕrum, adj. arma-gero
* Bearing weapons, armed, warlike (in this last sense rare, instead of armifer).
* Pennigero non armigero in corpore, Att. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 33: cum paucis armigeris,Curt. 3, 12: Phoebumque, armigerum deum (i. e. Martem),Sil. 7, 87: Colchis armigeră proelia sevit humo,Prop. 4, 10, 10: sulcus,Claud. I. Cons. Stil. 324, i. q. armiferum arvum (v. armifer fin.).
* Subst., an armor-bearer, shield-bearer, a female armorbearer (this is the prevailing signif. of the word).
* Masc.: armiger,Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 11; id. Cas. prol. 55: Sergius armiger Catilinae,i.e. an adherent,Cic. Dom. 5: regisque Thoactes Armiger,Ov. M. 5, 148; so id. ib. 12, 363: hic (Butes) Dardanio Anchisae Armiger ante fuit,Verg. A. 9, 648: vocavit armigerum suum,Vulg. Jud. 9, 54; ib. 1 Reg. 14, 1; ib. 1 Par. 10, 4 et saep.: armiger Jovis, i. e. aquila,Ov. M. 15, 386; Verg. A. 9, 564 (cf. Hor. C. 4, 4, 1: minister fulminis ales): armiger hac magni patet Hectoris, i. e. the promontory of Misenus, named after Misenus, the armor-bearer of Hector, Stat. S. 2, 77.
* Fem.: armigera, of the armor-bearer of Diana,Ov. M. 3, 166; 5, 619.

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