Military service (CIL III, 6687); m. equestris: the military postings of an equestrian (to both legionary and auxiliary units) (AE 1956, 252); m. prima: the first military posting for an equestrian as praefectus to command a quingenary auxiliary cohors (CIL XIV, 2947); m. secunda: the second military posting for an equestrian as a tribunus angusticlavius in a legion (AE 2003, 1803; CIL VI, 2131); m. tertia: the third military posting for an equestrian as praefectus of a cavalry ala (AE 1955, 228); m. quarta: a fourth, unusual, military posting for an equestrian to command one of the few milliary auxiliary units (CIL XIII, 6814; AE 1956, 124). [Goldsworthy 2003]
A foot soldier or infantryman (Caes., BG 5.10; RIB 2181); m. gregarius: an ordinary (or common) soldier (Tac., Hist. 5.1; Cic., Planc. 30.72); m. praetorianus: a member of the praetorian guard (Tac., Hist. 2.44; CIL III, 5606; VI, 2442). In the later Roman period sometimes found as milix (e.g. CIL VI, 32980). See also eques [Goldsworthy 2003]
Surveyor, responsible for laying out fortifications. Dig. 50.6.7; Veg., DRM 2.7; CIL VIII, 3028; m. agrarii: probably responsible for laying out territorium (CIL VI, 3606) and perhaps to be equated with the agrimensor of Amm. 19.11.8; m. frumenti (numeris): Possibly responsible for measuring out grain (CIL X, 130; XIII, 7007). See also metator. [Goldsworthy 2003]
The legal definition of a relationship between a soldier and a woman; m. iustum: a legal marriage, which was denied to soldiers until they achieved the honesta missio and afterwards only if both parties were Roman citizens (Gaius 5.7; Ulp. 5.10). [Phang 2001]
Literally ‘Mars barbs’, an alternative name for plumbata. The possibility exists that the original term was mattiobarbuli, perhaps in reference to the tribe of Mattiaci. Veg., DRM 1.17. See also plumbata [Bishop and Coulston 2006]
Per Lineam Valli 
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