Milites

The Romans, when their generals did speak to their army, did use the word Milites, but when the magistrates spake to the people they did use the word Quirites.

The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593

Knights be not born, neither is any man a knight by succession, no, not the king or prince: but they are made either before the battle, to encourage them the more to adventure and try their manhood; or after the battle ended, as an advancement for their courage and prowess already shewed, and then are they called Milites; or out of the wars for some great service done, or for the singular virtues which do appear in them, and then are they named Equites Aurati, as common custom intendeth.

Of Degrees of People in the Commonwealth of Elizabethan England. Chapter I. [1577, Book III., Chapter 4; 1587, Book II., Chapter 5 1909

The conquest of Sicily is related in the three last books, and he himself has given an accurate summary of the chapters, (p. 544-546.)] [Footnote 54: See the word Milites in the Latin Glossary of Ducange.] [Footnote 55: Of odd particulars, I learn from Malaterra, that the

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

The conquest of Sicily is related in the three last books, and he himself has given an accurate summary of the chapters, (p. 544 — 54 See the word Milites in the

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Milites Romani, perculsi tumultu insolito, arma capere alii, alii se abdere, pars territos confirmare, trepidare [227] omnibus locis; vis magna hostium, coelum nocte atque nubibus obscuratum, periculum anceps, [228] postremo fugere an manere tutius foret, in incerto erat.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

His name, as “Terrius de Bevra,” (Bevere, or Bever-lee in Holderness), he holding the Seigniory of that country, appears among the “Milites Flandriæ” in the rolls of Ban and Arriere Ban, in the time of Philip Augustus.

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

Charles Martel onward to the eleventh century it came to be adopted even by laymen, the Abbacomites, or Abbates Milites, mostly nobles dependent on the court, or old officers, to whom the sovereign would assign a portion of the revenues of some monastery as a reward for military service.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

* Milites Christi sumus et stipendium ab ipso donativumque percepimus:

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

[86] Milites sacramento erant jurati et obstricti ad praestandam soli imperitori fidelitatem et obedientiam.

The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842

* Milites sacramento erant jurati et obstricti ad praestandam soli imperitori fidelitatem et obedientiam.

The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842