as close as possible

ĭter, ĭtĭnĕris (archaic forms: nom. ĭtĭner, Enn. Pac. Att. Varr. ap. Non. 482, 20; Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 72; Lucr. 6, 339; Mart. Cap. 9, § 897.— Gen. iteris, Naev. ap. Prisc. p. 695 P.; id. ap. Non. 485, 3; Jul. Hyg. ap. Charis. p. 108 P.; also, iteneris, Lex Agr., C. I. L. 1, 200, 26.— Abl. itere, Att. and Varr. ap. Non. 485, 8; Lucr. 5, 653), n. [for itiner, from īre, ĭtum], a going, a walk, way.

Lit.

In gen.:

dicam in itinere,

on the way, as we go along, Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 34:

hoc ipsa in itinere dum narrat,

id. Heaut. 2, 3, 30:

huc quia habebas iter,

Plaut. As. 2, 3, 6:

iter illi saepius in forum,

Plin. Pan. 77:

in diversum iter equi concitati,

Liv. 1, 28. — Hence,

In partic.

A going to a distant place, a journey; and of an army, a march:

cum illi iter instaret et subitum et longum,

Cic. Att. 13, 23, 1; 3, 2 init.:

ut in itinere copia frumenti suppeteret,

Caes. B. G. 1, 3:

qui eo itineris causa convenerant,

id. ib. 7, 55:

sine ullo maleficio iter per provinciam facere,

id. ib. 1, 7:

in ipso itinere confligere,

Liv. 29, 36, 4; Nep. Eum. 8, 1; Hirt. B. G. 8, 27, 5; Just. 11, 15, 4:

Catilina ex itinere plerisque consularibus litteras mittit,

Sall. C. 34, 2:

committere se itineri,

Cic. Phil. 12, 10:

ingredi pedibus,

id. de Sen. 10:

conficere pulverulentā viā,

id. Att. 5, 14:

iter mihi est Lanuvium,

id. Mil. 10:

iter habere Capuam,

id. Att. 8, 11:

facere in Apuliam,

id. ib.:

agere,

Dig. 47, 5, 6; Salv. Gub. Dei, 1, 9: contendere iter, to hasten one ' s journey, Cic. Rosc. Am. 34, 97; so,

intendere,

Liv. 21, 29:

maturare,

Caes. B. C. 1, 63:

properare,

Tac. H. 3, 40:

conficere,

Cic. Att. 5, 14, 1; 4, 14, 2; id. Vatin. 5, 12:

constituere,

to determine upon, id. Att. 3, 1 init.:

urgere,

Ov. F. 6, 520: convertere in aliquem locum, to direct one ' s journey to a certain place, Caes. B. G. 7, 56: dirigere ad Mutinam, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 11:

agere in aliquam partem,

Ov. M. 2, 715: flectere, to change one ' s course, Verg. A. 7, 35:

convertere,

to direct, Cic. Att. 3, 3:

facere,

id. ib. 8, 11, C; Nep. Pel. 2, 5; Suet. Ner. 30 fin.; id. Aug. 64:

comparare,

to prepare for a journey, Nep. Alc. 10; Claud. Eutr. 2, 97:

supprimere,

to stop, break off, Caes. B. C. 1, 66:

retro vertere,

Liv. 28, 3:

ferre per medium mare,

Verg. A. 7, 810:

ferre Inachias urbes,

Stat. Th. 1, 326:

continuare die ac nocte,

to march day and night, Caes. B. C. 3, 36:

desistere itinere,

id. B. G. 5, 11:

coeptum dimittere,

Ov. M. 2, 598:

frangere,

Stat. Th. 12, 232:

impedire,

Ov. H. 21, 74:

instituere,

Hor. C. 3, 27, 5:

peragere,

Verg. A. 6, 381; Hor. S. 2, 6, 99; Ov. F. 1, 188:

rumpere,

Hor. C. 3, 27, 5:

itinere prohibere aliquem,

Caes. B. G. 1, 9:

ex itinere redire,

Cic. Att. 15, 24; Suet. Tit. 5:

revertere,

Cic. Div. 1, 15, 26:

Boii ex itinere nostros adgressi,

Caes. B. G. 1, 25, 6:

tutum alicui praestare,

Cic. Planc. 41.—

Iter terrestre, iter pedestre, a journey by land, a land route (not ante-Aug.):

iter terrestre facturus,

Just. 12, 10, 7:

inde terrestri itinere frumentum advehere,

Tac. H. 4, 35:

terrestri itinere ducere legiones,

Liv. 30, 36, 3; 44, 1, 4; Curt. 9, 10, 2:

pedestri itinere confecto,

Suet. Claud. 17:

pedestri itinere Romam pervenire,

Liv. 36, 21, 6; 37, 45, 2; Amm. 31, 11, 6.—

A journey, a march, considered as a measure of distance: cum abessem ab Amano iter unius diei, a day ' s journey, Cic. Fam. 15, 4:

cum dierum iter quadraginta processerit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 24: quam maximis itineribus potest in Galliam contendit, by making each day ' s journey as long as possible, i. e. forced marches, id. ib. 1, 7:

magnis diurnis nocturnisque itineribus contendere,

id. ib. 1, 38:

itinera multo majora fugiens quam ego sequens,

making greater marches in his flight, Brut. ad Cic. Fam. 11, 13.— Hence, justum iter diei, a day's march of a proper length:

confecto justo itinere ejus diei,

Caes. B. C. 3, 76. —

The place in which one goes, travels, etc., a way, passage, path, road: qua ibant ab itu iter appellarant, Varr. L. L. 5, § 35 Müll.; cf.

5, § 22: itineribus deviis proticisci in provinciam,

Cic. Att. 14, 10:

erant omnino itinera duo, quibus itineribus domo exire possent,

Caes. B. G. 1, 6:

pedestria itinera concisa aestuariis,

id. ib. 3, 9:

patefacere alicui iter in aliquem locum,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 11:

in diversum iter equi concitati,

Liv. 1, 28:

ut deviis itineribus milites duceret,

Nep. Eum. 3, 5:

itinere devio per ignorantiam locorum retardati,

Suet. Galb. 20:

exercitum per insidiosa itinera ducere,

id. Caes. 58:

qua rectum iter in Persidem ducebat,

Curt. 13, 11, 19:

ferro aperire,

Sall. C. 58, 7:

fodiendo, substruendo iter facere,

Dig. 8, 1, 10.— Of the corridors in houses, Vitr. 6, 9.—Of any passage:

iter urinae,

the urethra, Cels. 7, 25:

iter vocis,

Verg. A. 7, 534:

itinera aquae,

Col. 8, 17: carpere iter, to pursue a journey:

Rubos fessi pervenimus utpote longum carpentes iter,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 95:

non utile carpis iter,

Ov. M. 2, 550: alicui iter claudere, to block one ' s way, close the way for him:

ne suus hoc illis clauserit auctor iter,

Ov. P. 1, 1, 6; id. F. 1, 272; id. M. 14, 793: iter ingredi, to enter on a way or road, Suet. Caes. 31:

iter patefacere,

to open a way, Caes. B. G. 3, 1.—

A privilege or legal right of going to a place, the right of way:

aquaeductus, haustus, iter, actus a patre sumitur,

Cic. Caecin. 26, 74:

negat se posse iter ulli per provinciam dare,

Caes. B. G. 1, 8, 3; cf. Dig. 8, 3, 1, § 1; 8, 3, 7; 12.—

Trop., a way, course, custom, method of a person or thing:

patiamur illum ire nostris itineribus,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 3:

verum iter gloriae,

id. Phil. 1, 14, 33:

videmus naturam suo quodam itinere ad ultimum pervenire,

id. N. D. 2, 13, 35:

iter amoris nostri et officii mei,

id. Att. 4, 2, 1:

salutis,

Verg. A. 2, 387:

fecit iter sceleri,

Ov. M. 15, 106:

labi per iter declive senectae,

id. ib. 15, 227:

vitae diversum iter ingredi,

Juv. 7, 172:

duo itinera audendi,

Tac. H. 4, 49:

novis et exquisitis eloquentiae itineribus opus est,

id. Or. 19:

pronum ad honores,

Plin. Ep. 8, 10 fin.; cf.:

novum ad principatum,

id. Pan. 7, 1.