infantry Copy link Outline 1. pĕdĭtātus, ūs (esp. in general sense; or in contrast with cavalry)2. pĕdestres cōpiae (= preced.)3. pĕdes, ĭtis; sing. or pl. (esp. infantry as drawn up in battle or engaged4. Sometimes milites is used so as to exclude cavalry, Caes. B. G. 5, 10, milites equitesque • infantry: 1. pĕdĭtātus, ūs (esp. in general sense; or in contrast with cavalry): to be stronger in cavalry than in i., equitatu plus valere quam p., Nep. Eum. 3, extr.: to assemble cavalry and i., equitatum p.que cogere, Caes. B. G. 5, 3: Cic. 2. pĕdestres cōpiae (= preced.): to be strong in i., p. valere copiis, Caes. B. G. 2, 17: such vast forces of cavalry and i., tantae equestres et p. copiae, Cic. Fin. 2, 34, 112: Tac. So, pedestris exercitus, Nep. Eum. 4; p. acies (as drawn up in battle). Tac. Ann. 2, 17: p. pugna, an engagement with i., Liv.: Suet. 3. pĕdes, ĭtis; sing. or pl. (esp. infantry as drawn up in battle or engaged: also in gen. sense: the sing. is used in more lively passages): on the right wing they station the Roman horse; next to them, the i., in dextro cornu Romanos equites locant, deinde pedites, Liv. 22, 45: a veteran i., veteranus p., Liv. 21, 44, init.: the mixture of i. (with cavalry) frightened the horses, turbabant equos pedites intermixti, Liv. 21, 46: forces of cavalry and i., equitum et p. copiae, Pomp. in Cic. Att. 8, 12, C.: their strength is in their i., in pedite robur, Tac. Agr. 12. (N.B.--Pedes, pedites, are the terms most freq. in milit. writers.) 4. Sometimes milites is used so as to exclude cavalry, Caes. B. G. 5, 10, milites equitesque: so, exercitus equitatusque, ib. 7, 61 (R. and A.). Phr.: to serve in the i., pedibus merere, Liv. 24, 18.