I.unarmed, without weapons, defenceless.
I. Form inermis.
A. Lit.: “si spoliatum, inermem recepisset Antonium,” Cic. Fam. 12, 10, 3: “inermibus vim facere (opp. arma. tis),” id. Caecin. 22, 63; cf. ib. 12; 61, 60 sq.: “milites,” Caes. B. G. 3, 29: manus peditum inermium, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 10, 3: “praedas ex agro inermi ac nudo praesidiis agens,” Liv. 29, 4, 7; cf. Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 51: “frater tendebat inermes infelix palmas,” Verg. A. 10, 595; 11, 414; 674: “inermia frustra bracchia tendens,” Ov. M. 5, 175.—
2. Transf.: “legati,” without an army, Tac. H. 2, 81; cf. id. ib. 1, 11; “3, 5: gingiva,” toothless, Juv. 10, 200: “virus,” weak, Prud. Cath. 3, 154.—
B. Trop.: “carmen,” i. e. that wounds no one, harmless, Ov. Ib. 2; cf. Prop. 4, 6, 32: “in altera philosophiae parte inermis ac nudus est,” unprepared, not well versed, Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 22: “omnia tractanda putabat inermi justitia,” Juv. 4, 80.—
II. Form inermus: “cum paucis inermis (al. inermibus),” Cic. Fam. 11, 12, 1: magna multitudo sed inermorum, Lepid. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 34, 1: “ab inermis pedibus,” Sall. J. 107, 1 (in other passages of Sall. the read. is dub.; cf. Kritz, J. 113, 6; “Fabri,” ib. 94, 2).
