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militi

militi is a Latin form of miles, meaning “soldier”. It is the dative singular masculine noun.

Found 165 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.25.2: scuto ab novissimis [uni] militi detracto, quod ipse eo sine scuto venerat, in primam aciem processit centurionibusque nominatim appellatis reliquos cohortatus milites signa inferre et manipulos laxare iussit, quo facilius gladiis uti possent.

Plautus, Bacchides 4.4.706: Militi nummis ducentis iam usus est pro Bacchide.

All forms of miles (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.