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|lshtext=<b>bellĭcus</b>: (duellĭcus), a, um, adj. [[bellum]],<br /><b>I</b> of or pertaining to [[war]], [[war]]-, [[military]].<br /><b>I</b> In gen.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</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. —<br /><b>II</b> 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.

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