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Lewis Short
(adjective) : pĕdester, tris, tre (
* Masc. pedestris, Nep. Eum. 4, 3; Vop. Prob. 21, 1), id., on foot, that goes, is done, etc., on foot, pedestrian.
* 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.
* In plur. subst. pedestres, foot-soldiers, Just. 11, 9; people on foot, Vulg. Matt. 14, 13; id. Marc. 6, 33.
* Trop., of style, like the Gr. πεζός, not rising above the ground, not elevated.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Masc. pedestris, Nep. Eum. 4, 3; Vop. Prob. 21, 1), id., on foot, that goes, is done, etc., on foot, pedestrian.
* 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.
* In plur. subst. pedestres, foot-soldiers, Just. 11, 9; people on foot, Vulg. Matt. 14, 13; id. Marc. 6, 33.
* Trop., of style, like the Gr. πεζός, not rising above the ground, not elevated.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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