(adjective) : mille, in the plur.mīlia (or millia;
* Archaic, MEILIA,Inscr. Orell. 3308; abl. sing. milli, Lucil. ap. Gell. 1, 16, and ap. Macr. S. 1, 5), Sanscr. root mil-, combine, associate; Gr. ὅμιλος; cf. miles, a thousand, thousands.
* Lit.
* In gen., sometimes in sing. subst, with gen.; in plur, only subst. with gen.: equites mille viā breviore praemissi, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 9, 3: mille et quingentis passibus abesse,Caes. B. G. 1, 22.—With gen.: mille drachumarum Olympicūm,Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 23: spondeo et mille auri Philippum dotis,id. ib. 5, 2, 34; cf.: mille nummūm,Cic. Phil. 6, 5, 15; id. ap. Gell. 1, 16, 5: mille denariūm,Gell. 1, 16, 9: mille quingentos aeris in censum adferre,Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 40: ibi occiditur mille hominum, Quadrig. ap. Gell. 1, 16, 1: hominum mille versabatur,Cic. Mil. 20, 53.—So with verb in sing., Cic. Att. 4, 16, 14; Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 4; Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 40: mille equitum,Caes. B. C. 3, 84; Liv. 21, 61: mille militum,Nep. Milt. 5, 1: plus mille et centum annorum est, Varr. ap. Gell. 1, 16, 3: mille annorum,Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 87: passuum, Cato ap. Gell. l. l.; Caes. B. G. 1, 25, 5 al.; cf. Zumpt, Gr. § 116.—In plur. with gen.: Thracum mille aut duo milia occidere,Cic. Phil. 14, 5, 12: sexcenta milia mundorum,id. N. D. 1, 34, 96.—Without gen.: censa sunt civium capita centum quadraginta tria milia septingenta quatuor,Liv. 35, 9: sagittarios tria milia numero habebat,Caes. B. C. 3, 4: tot milia, gentes Arma ferunt Italae,Verg. A. 9, 132: decem milia talenta,Hier. in Evang. Matt. 18, 24: quatuor milia, funditores et sagittarii,Liv. 37, 40, 9; cf. id. 37, 40, 11; 38, 38, 13; 37, 58, 4: tritici modios CXX milia polliceri,Caes. B. C. 2, 18, 4; 3, 4, 3: Graecis peditibus mercede conductis, triginta milibus, praepositus,Curt. 3, 9, 2; 9, 3, 21; 5, 1, 41; Liv. 34, 52, 7.—Distributively: in milia aeris asses singulos,on every thousand,Liv. 29, 15.
* Transf., like the Gr. μυρία, a thousand, for innumerable, infinite (mostly poet.): mille pro uno Kaesones exstitisse,Liv. 3, 14, 4; 2, 28, 4: mille trahens varios adverso sole colores,Verg. A. 4, 701: tentat mille modis,Hor. C. 3, 7, 12: mille pericula saevae urbis,Juv. 3, 8; 12, 46: quomodo persequatur unus mille,Vulg. Deut. 32, 30. —Plur.: ante milia annorum,Plin. 14 praef. 1, § 3: milia tumulorum, Prud. cont. Symm. 1, 516: erat numerus eorum milia milium,Vulg. Apoc. 5, 11; so, mille alia, alia mille,innumerable others,Quint. 2, 15, 23; Sen. Ep. 24, 14.

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