millia

millia is a Latin form of mille, meaning “a thousand; (pl. milia) thousands; mille passuum: a mile”. It is the nominative plural neuter numeral or accusative plural neuter numeral or numeral.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.13.1: Insula natura triquetra, cuius unum latus est contra Galliam. Huius lateris alter angulus, qui est ad Cantium, quo fere omnes ex Gallia naves appelluntur, ad orientem solem, inferior ad meridiem spectat. Hoc pertinet circiter millia passuum quingenta.

Augustus, Res Gestae Divi Augusti 3: … niam petentibus civibus peperci. Externas gentes, quibus tuto ignosci potuit, conservare quam excidere malui. Millia civium Romanorum sub sacramento meo fuerunt circiter quingenta. Ex quibus deduxi in colonias aut remisi in mu …

All forms of mille (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.