One must agree with Tissot that the "ferme milia passuum viginti" of Sallust (Jug.
Between the Curia and the Basilica Æmilia is supposed to have stood the celebrated Temple of Janus, built according to Livy by Numa Pompilius, the closing or opening of which was the signal of peace or war.
But it is only in the Life by Probus that Andes is described as a 'vicus,' and there it is said to be distant from Mantua 'xxx milia passuum.
Sed illud maximum: octo hominummilia tenebat Hannibal, non quos in acie cepisset, aut qui periculo mortis diffugissent, sed qui relicti in castris fuissent a Paulo et a Varrone consulibus.
Mil had four plurals, milia miria melia mila; millięrs is a noun.
Footnote 12: Vita Probiana, milia passuum XXX is usually changed to III on the basis of Donatus: a Mantua non procul.
The automobilist should bear this in mind and not eat up the roadway through Æmilia at sixty miles an hour simply because it is possible.
The Via Æmilia divides the city, by means of the Strada Mæstra, into two very nearly equal parts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "milia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
