hosticus

hostĭcus, a, um, adj. [hostis].

I.

Of or belonging to an enemy, hostile (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose;

not in Cic. or Cæs.): ager,

Liv. 44, 13:

tellus,

Ov. P. 1, 3, 65:

moenia,

Hor. C. 3, 2, 6:

vindemia,

Ov. F. 4, 893:

manus,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 49; 2, 2, 61:

ensis,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 31:

incursiones, Col. praef. § 19: tumultus,

Flor. 3, 10, 17.—In neutr. as subst.: hostĭcum, i, the enemy's territory:

castra in hostico incuriose posita,

Liv. 8, 38, 2:

raptae ex hostico messes,

Plin. Pan. 29, 3:

transire in hosticum,

Eum. Pan. ad Constant. 13; also enmity:

hosticum spirare,

Tert. Mag. 35.—

II.

Of or belonging to a stranger, strange, foreign:

hosticum hoc mihi domiciliumst, Athenis domus est,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 40.