I. Of or belonging to an enemy, hostile.
A. In gen. (class.): “amator simili'st oppidi hostilis,” Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 68: “terra,” Cic. Inv. 1, 55, 108: “manus,” id. Tusc. 1, 35, 85: “naves,” Hor. Epod. 9, 19: “domus,” id. ib. 5, 53: “aratrum,” id. C. 1, 16, 21: “manus,” Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 61: “cadavera,” Sall. C. 61, 8: “vis,” Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 52: “condictiones pactionesque (with bellicae),” Cic. Off. 3, 29, 108: “minae,” Tac. A. 13, 57: “metus,” of the enemy, Sall. J. 41, 2: “spolia,” Liv. 29, 35, 5; Suet. Ner. 38: “terra,” Liv. 44, 3, 8: “clamor,” id. 1, 29, 2: “turmae,” id. 9, 22, 9: “murmur,” Tac. H. 2, 42: “audacia,” id. A. 14, 23: “solum,” id. ib. 11, 16; “11, 20: nationes,” id. ib. 11, 23.—As subst.: hostīle , is, n., hostile country, the enemy's land or soil: “prior Parthus apud Gaium in nostra ripa, posterior hic apud regem in hostili (sc. solo) epulatus est,” Vell. 2, 101 fin.—
B. In partic., in divining: “hostilis pars (opp. pars familiaris),” the part of the entrails that related to the enemy, Luc. 1, 622.—
II. That is usual with an enemy, hostile (class.): “hominis hostilem in modum seditiosi imago,” Cic. Rab. Perd. 9, 24; cf.: “hostilem in modum vexare,” id. Prov. Cons. 3, 5: “in hunc hostili odio est,” id. Clu. 5, 12: “spiritus,” Tac. H. 4, 57: “ne quid ab se hostile timeret,” Sall. J. 88, 5: “caedem, fugam aliaque hostilia portendant,” id. ib. 3, 2: “legati retulerunt, omnia hostilia esse,” Liv. 21, 16, 1: “multa hostilia audere,” Tac. H. 4, 15: “facere,” Sall. J. 107, 2: “loqui,” Tac. H. 2, 66: “invicem coeptare,” id. ib. 3, 70: “induere adversus aliquem,” id. A. 12, 40: “apibus inimica est nebula: aranei quoque vel maxime hostiles,” Plin. 11, 19, 21, § 65.—Hence, adv.: hostī-lĭter , like an enemy, in a hostile manner, hostilely: “quid ille fecit hostiliter,” Cic. Phil. 5, 9, 25; Sall. J. 20, 4; Liv. 2, 14, 2; 9, 38, 1; Tac. H. 2, 85; Suet. Caes. 54; Ov. M. 11, 372; 14, 68.
