"Liable for military service" Which meant what...all able bodied men? (yes that was the statute and apparent use in many kingdoms) Nice fraught term you've found there.
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The usage in Roman times for sailor was clearly different than what they used for ground pounder or naval infantry. So no unified term then or now. Certainly not by the medieval period.
Er. 1) The term is clearly unified in Plautus and consequently the (small) corpus of old Latin. 2) The Romans certainly do not have a clearly different sense of 'legions on boats' than 'legions on ground.' They have a word for 'rowers' (which is how they might use nautae)...
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...but 'rowers' or 'sailors' are not marines. If the question is 'does milites cover sailors in the ancient world' - by and large no? But actually stay tuned for some interesting research by
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But the question was 'does it cover marines.' It does cover marines. Again, the reference is provided and the matter settled. In the medieval context, I have a hard time imagining at a king's milites become much lower status nautae the moment they're on a boat?
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