(verb) : mīlĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, miles
* To be a soldier, to perform military service, to serve as a soldier (syn.: stipendium mereo; class.).
* 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.
* Transf.
* To make war, wage war, war against; pass., with a homogeneous subject: libenter hoc et omne militabitur Bellum,Hor. Epod. 1, 23.
* 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.

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