bellicus

bellĭcus ( duellĭcus ), a, um, adj. [bellum], of or pertaining to war, war-, military.

I.

In gen.

A.

Lit.:

ars duellica,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 14:

bellicam rem administrari majores nostri nisi auspicato noluerunt,

Cic. Div. 2, 36, 76; Hor. C. 4, 3, 6; Suet. Calig. 43:

disciplina,

Cic. N. D. 2, 64, 161:

jus,

id. Off. 3, 29, 107:

virtus,

id. Mur. 10, 22:

laus,

military glory, id. Brut. 21, 84; Caes. B. G. 6, 24:

laudes,

Cic. Off. 1, 22, 78:

gloria,

Tac. A. 1, 52:

caerimoniae,

Liv. 1, 32, 5:

certamina,

Flor. 4, 12, 58:

ignis,

proceeding from the enemy, Liv. 30, 5, 8:

tubicen,

Ov. M. 3, 705:

rostra,

Tib. 2, 3, 40:

navis,

Prop. 2 (3), 15, 43:

turba,

id. 3 (4), 14, 13:

parma,

id. 2 (3), 25, 8: nomina, appellatives obtained by valorous deeds in war (as Africanus, Asiaticus, Macedonicus, etc.), Flor. 3, 8, 1:

nubes,

the misfortune of war, Claud. Laus. Seren. 196: columella. Fest. p. 27; cf. Bellona.— Hence, subst.: bellĭcum, i, n., a signal for march or for the beginning of an attack (given by the trumpet); always in the connection bellicum canere, to give the signal for breaking up camp, for an attack, for commencing hostilities: Philippum, ubi primum bellicum cani audisset, arma capturum, at the first signal will be ready to take arms, etc., Liv 35, 18, 6:

simul atque aliqui motus novus bellicum canere coepit,

causes the war-trumpet to sound, Cic. Mur. 14, 30; Just. 12, 15, 11; App de Mundo, p. 71, 37.—

B.

Trop.: idem bellicum me cecinisse dicunt. aroused, incited, Cic. Phil. 7, 1, 3.—And of fiery, inflammatory discourse:

alter (Thucydides) incitatior fertur et de bellicis rebus canit etiam quodammodo bellicum,

sounds the alarm, Cic. Or 12, 39:

non eosdem modos adhibent, cum bellicum est canendum, et cum posito genu supplicandum est,

Quint. 9, 4, 11; 10, 1, 33. —

II.

Transf., poet., = bellicosus, warlike, fierce in war:

Pallas,

Ov. M. 5, 46:

dea,

id. ib. 2, 752; id. F. 3, 814:

virgo,

id. M. 4, 754:

Mars,

id. F. 3, 1:

deus,

i.e. Romulus, id. ib. 2, 478:

civitas,

devoted to war, Vell. 2, 38, 3.—Of animals: equorum duellica proles, * Lucr. 2, 661.