Hostium numerus

Latin Construction

hostium numerus. masc.

1. ‘The number of one's enemies;’ those counted as one's enemies.
2. ‘A number of enemies.’

Constructions

Preposition constructions

• in hostium numero — Cic. [αʹ], [γʹ]

Loci

• αʹ prep. Cicero, Ad Atticum 10.18:

Dubitas igitur quin nos in hostium numero habeat?

So do you doubt he has us numbered among his enemies?

• βʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 11.6:

omnes enim qui in Italia manserant hostium numero habebantur.

In fact everyone who remained in Italy was reckoned among the enemy.

• γʹ prep. Cicero, Ad Atticum 14.13:

quemcumque enim haec pars perditorum laetatum Caesaris morte putabit (laetitiam autem apertissime tulimus omnes), hunc in hostium numero habebit; quae res ad caedem maximam spectat.

For whoever this corrupt party thinks was glad Caesar died (and we all wore our happiness quite openly) will be counted an enemy; this suggests much carnage.

• δʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 5.20:

Hic a. d. iii Id. Oct. magnum numerum hostium occidimus.

Here on October 13 we killed a large number of the enemy.