inermis

ĭn-ermis, e, and in-ermus, a, um (v. Neue, Formenl. 2, p. 88), adj. [2. in-arma], unarmed, without weapons, defenceless.

I.

Form inermis.

A.

Lit.:

si spoliatum, inermem recepisset Antonium,

Cic. Fam. 12, 10, 3:

inermibus vim facere (opp. arma. tis),

id. Caecin. 22, 63; cf. ib. 12; 61, 60 sq.:

milites,

Caes. B. G. 3, 29: manus peditum inermium, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 10, 3:

praedas ex agro inermi ac nudo praesidiis agens,

Liv. 29, 4, 7; cf. Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 51:

frater tendebat inermes infelix palmas,

Verg. A. 10, 595; 11, 414; 674:

inermia frustra bracchia tendens,

Ov. M. 5, 175.—

2.

Transf.:

legati,

without an army, Tac. H. 2, 81; cf. id. ib. 1, 11;

3, 5: gingiva,

toothless, Juv. 10, 200:

virus,

weak, Prud. Cath. 3, 154.—

B.

Trop.:

carmen,

i. e. that wounds no one, harmless, Ov. Ib. 2; cf. Prop. 4, 6, 32:

in altera philosophiae parte inermis ac nudus est,

unprepared, not well versed, Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 22:

omnia tractanda putabat inermi justitia,

Juv. 4, 80.—

II.

Form inermus:

cum paucis inermis (al. inermibus),

Cic. Fam. 11, 12, 1: magna multitudo sed inermorum, Lepid. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 34, 1:

ab inermis pedibus,

Sall. J. 107, 1 (in other passages of Sall. the read. is dub.; cf. Kritz, J. 113, 6;

Fabri,

ib. 94, 2 ).