văgor

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văgor, ātus, 1, v. dep. n. and a. [vagus], to stroll about, go to and fro, to ramble, wander, roam, range, rove (class.; syn.: erro, palor).

Lit.:

enim metuo ut possim reicere (boves) in bubile, ne vagentur,

Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 18:

quae (natura) efficiat volucres huc illuc passim vagantes,

Cic. Div. 2, 38, 80:

cum in agris homines passim bestiarum more vagabantur,

id. Inv. 1, 2, 2:

tota Asia vagatur, volitat ut rex,

id. Phil. 11, 2, 6:

volitabit et vagabitur in foro,

Auct. Her. 4, 39, 51:

toto foro,

Cic. de Or. 1, 40, 184; id. Font. 15, 33 (11, 23):

totā urbe,

Verg. A. 4, 68:

tibicines feriati vagantur per urbem,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 17 Müll.:

Germani latius jam vagabantur,

Caes. B. G. 4, 6; 1, 2; id. B. C. 1, 59:

libera vagandi facultas,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 32:

qui populabundi in finibus Romanorum vagabantur,

Liv. 3, 5, 13; 2, 60, 2:

ad quattuor milia hominum frumentatum egressa cum in agris passim vagarentur,

id. 36, 39, 20; 3, 58, 11; Ov. F. 1, 545; Quint. 5, 9, 12:

canes circum tecta vagantur,

Verg. G. 3, 540; id. A. 5, 560:

circum vicos ludibundus,

Suet. Ner. 26:

ultra Terminum curis vagor expeditis,

Hor. C. 1, 22, 11.—Of inanimate things:

luna isdem spatiis vagatur quibus Sol,

Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 103:

stellae sponte suā, jussaene vagentur et errent,

Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 17 (cf.:

stellae quae errantes et quasi vagae nominantur,

Cic. Rep. 1, 14, 22):

late vagatus est ignis,

Liv. 5, 42, 2; cf. id. 44, 29, 6.—

Poet., with acc.:

Ino etiam primā terras aetate vagata est,

i. e. wandered through the earth, Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 19 (al. fugata est).—

Trop., to wander about, roam, be unsettled, waver, spread abroad, diffuse itself, etc.:

speremus nostrum nomen volitare et vagari latissime,

Cic. Rep. 1, 17, 26:

etiam cum manent corpore, animo tamen excurrunt et vagantur,

id. ib. 2, 4, 7:

quorum vagetur animus errore,

id. Off. 2, 2, 7:

ne vagari et errare cogatur oratio,

id. de Or. 1, 48, 209:

eo fit, ut errem et vager latius,

id. Ac. 2, 20, 66; cf. id. Div. 1, 40 88:

verba ita soluta, ut vagentur,

id. de Or. 3, 44, 176; cf. id. Tusc. 3, 6, 13:

idcircone vager scribamque licenter,

Hor. A. P. 265:

non vagans oratio, sed defixa in unā re publicā,

Cic. Rep. 2, 11, 22:

video, qui de agri culturā scripserunt... latius vagatos,

Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 13:

Viennensium vitia inter ipsos residunt, nostra late vagantur,

Plin. Ep. 4, 22, 7:

ea fama vagatur,

is spread abroad, Verg. A. 2, 17; cf. Ov. M. 12, 54:

quare mors immatura vagatur,

Lucr. 5, 221:

vagantibus Graeciae fabulis,

i. e. variously related, fluctuating, Plin. 5, 5, 5, § 31.

vāgor, ōris, m. [vagio], a sounding, sound:

vagorem pro vagitu, Enn. (16, 32): qui clamos oppugnantis vagore volanti, Lucr. (2, 577),

Fest. p. 375; cf. Non. 184, 22.

dē-văgor, āri, v. dep. n., to wander, to stray from (post-class.): a venditionibus, Cod. Th. 1, 10, 5.—

Trop., to deviate, digress: a venditionibus ulterius, Justin. de Conc. Dig. 1.

erro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [root er-, to go; desiderative forms, erchomai (ersk-); and Lat. (ers-o) erro, to seek to reach; hence, to wander; cf. Germ. irren; Engl. err, etc., v. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 546 sq.].

In gen.

Prop., to wander, to wander or stray about, to wander up and down, to rove (freq. and class.; cf.

vagor, palor): propter te errans patria careo,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 16; cf.:

cum vagus et exsul erraret,

Cic. Clu. 62, 175:

ignari hominumque locorumque Erramus vento huc et vastis fluctibus acti,

Verg. A. 1, 333; cf. id. ib. 1, 32; 3, 200; Ov. M. 3, 175; id. F. 2, 335 et saep.:

circum villulas nostras,

Cic. Att. 8, 9, 3:

pios per lucos,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 7:

inter audaces lupus errat agnos,

id. ib. 3, 18, 13; cf.

of beasts,

id. S. 1, 8, 35; id. Epod. 2, 12; Verg. E. 1, 9; 2, 21; 6, 40; id. G. 4, 11 et saep.— Pass. impers.:

male tum Libyae solis erratur in agris,

Verg. G. 3, 249.—Prov.:

in media luce errare,

Sen. Ben. 5, 6, 3.—

Transf., of inanimate things:

(stellae) quae errantes et quasi vagae nominantur,

Cic. Rep. 1, 14;

so of the planets,

id. N. D. 2, 20; 3, 20; id. Tusc. 1, 25, 62; Plin. 2, 6, 4, § 12; Vulg. Jud. 13; cf.

of the motion of the stars in gen.,

Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 17:

Cocytus errans flumine languido,

id. C. 2, 14, 18; cf. Verg. G. 3, 14:

errantesque per altum Cyaneae,

Val. Fl. 4, 561:

hic lintres errare videres,

Ov. F. 2, 391:

vidi ad frontem sparsos errare capillos,

i. e. flying about, Prop. 2, 1, 7; cf. id. 2, 22, 9:

errantia lumina,

i. e. moving fitfully about, Prop. 3, 14, 27 (4, 13, 27 M.); cf. Stat. Th. 10, 150:

pulmonibus errat Ignis edax,

i. e. spreads, runs about, Ov. M. 9, 201 et saep.—

Trop., to wander, stray at random: ne vagari et errare cogatur oratio, Cic. de Or., 48, 209; cf.: erraus et vaga sententia (opp. stabilis certaque), id. N. D. 2, 1, 2:

eo fit, ut errem et vager latius,

id. Ac. 2, 20, 66:

ut ingredi libere, non ut licenter videatur errare,

id. Or. 23, 77:

errans opinio (opp. stabilis conscientia),

id. Fin. 2, 22, 71:

dubiis affectibus errat,

Ov. M. 8, 473:

ne tuus erret honos,

be in doubt, uncertain, id. F. 1, 468; cf. id. ib. 3, 543.— Poet., with a rel.-clause:

erro, quam insistas viam,

I am uncertain, in doubt, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 197; cf.:

inter recens et vetus sacramentum,

i. e. to hesitate, vacillate, Tac. H. 4, 58.—

In partic., to miss the right way, to lose one's self, go astray (in the literal sense rarely, but in the trop. freq. and class.).

Lit.: homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 16, 51:

errare viā,

Verg. A. 2, 739:

maledictus qui errare facit caecum in itinere,

Vulg. Deut. 27, 18.—

Trop., to wander from the truth, to err, mistake:

avius errat Saepe animus,

Lucr. 3, 463; cf. id. 2, 740:

totā erras viā,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 14; cf.:

in eo non tu quidem totà re, sed temporibus errasti,

Cic. Phil. 2, 9 fin.:

longe,

Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 40; cf.

procul,

Sall. J. 85, 38 Kritz. N. cr.:

errant probe,

Plaut. Am. 3, 3, 20:

vehementer,

Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 103:

valde,

id. de Or. 2, 19, 83 et saep.:

errare malo cum Platone quam cum istis vera sentire,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 39; cf. id. Balb. 28, 64:

erras, si id credis,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 53; so with si, id. Hec. 4, 4, 60; Caes. B. G. 5, 41, 5; 7, 29, 2 et saep.:

de nostris verbis errat,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 22:

in aliqua re,

Quint. 6, 3, 112; 10, 2, 21; 11, 1, 81 al.:

in alteram partem,

id. 10, 1, 26; cf.:

in alienos fetus,

Liv. 31, 12, 8.—Less freq. with acc. of a neutr. pronoun:

mone, quaeso, si quid erro,

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 30; so with quid, Ter. And. 3, 2, 18; Quint. 2, 5, 16; 2, 3, 11; 2, 6, 6:

hoc,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 21.— Poet. also with the acc. of a noun:

errabant tempora,

i. e. in chronology, Ov. F. 3, 155.— Pass. impers.:

si fuit errandum,

Ov. H. 7, 109:

si nihil esset erratum,

Quint. 6, 5, 7:

si erratur in nomine,

Cic. Fin. 4, 20 fin.; cf.:

tutius circa priores erratur,

Quint. 2, 5, 26:

uno verbo esse erratum,

id. 7, 3, 17. —Sometimes, in a palliative manner, of moral error, to err through mistake:

pariter te errantem et illum sceleratissimum persequi,

Sall. J. 102, 5; cf. id. ib. 104, 4. —Hence,

errātum, i, n., an error, mistake, fault:

illud de Flavio et fastis, si secus est, commune erratum est,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 18; cf. id. ib. 13, 44 fin.:

cujus errato nulla venia, recte facto exigua laus proponitur,

id. Agr. 2, 2, 5; id. Fam. 5, 20, 8:

nullum ob totius vitae non dicam vitium, sed erratum,

id. Clu. 48; cf. id. Lig. 1; id. Sull. 23; and in plur., id. Fam. 16, 21, 2; Sall. J. 102, 10; Ov. Pont. 2, 3, 66.—

Act. in Aug. poets (only in part. perf.), to wander over or through:

immensum est erratas dicere terras,

Ov. F. 4, 573:

ager,

id. ib. 3, 655:

orbis,

Val. Fl. 4, 447:

litora,

Verg. A. 3, 690.

erro, ōnis, m. [1. erro], a wanderer, vagabond, vagrant, Tib. 2, 6, 6; Ov. H. 15, 53.—Used esp. of slaves:

ut errones aliquem cujus dicantur invenient,

Plin. Ep. 2, 10, 5; Edict. Aedil. ap. Gell. 4, 2, 1; Dig. 21, 1, 17, § 14; 49, 16, 4 fin.; Hor. S. 2, 7, 113.—Of the queen-bee:

dux,

Col. 9, 10 fin. —Of the planets, Nigid. ap. Gell. 3, 10, 2; 14, 1, 11.— Of vagabond soldiers:

nec nostros servire sinant errorribus agros,

Verg. Dir. 70 Rib.

ē-văgor, ātus, 1, v. dep. n. and a.

Neutr., to wander forth, to roam about; to scatter or spread about, to extend (class.).

Lit.:

ne longius evagatae (incubantes gallinae) refrigerent ova,

Col. 8, 5, 14:

cappari evagatur per agros,

Plin. 19, 8, 48, § 163:

Nilus,

id. 10, 33, 49, § 94:

ignis ulterius,

Dig. 9, 2, 30, § 3.—

In milit. lang., to march to and fro, make evolutions, manœuvre:

nullo ad evagandum relicto spatio,

Liv. 22, 47, 3; 23, 47, 5.—

Trop., to spread, extend, digress: qui appetitus longius evagantur, * Cic. Off. 1, 29, 102:

late evagata est vis morbi,

Liv. 3, 7 fin.:

latissime evagandi sibi viam facere (exempla),

Vell. 2, 3, 4:

ne Demostheni permittant evagari,

Quint. 3, 6, 3; so of wandering, digressing in speaking, id. 2, 4, 32; 3, 11, 25;

of overstepping the limits of duty: procuratores,

Spart. Hadr 3 § 9.—

Act., to stray beyond, [p. 666] to overstep any thing:

ordinem,

Hor. C. 4, 15, 10.

pālor, ātus ( gen. plur. part. palantūm, Sil. 5, 445), 1, v. dep. ( act. collat. form pālo, āre, Sulp. Sat. 1, 43 Wernsd.; Poët. Lat. Min. 3, p. 90) [cf. Sanscr. pad, go; Gr. pous, podos; Lat. pes], to wander up and down, to wander, wander about; to be dispersed, to straggle (not in Cic. or Cæs.; most freq. in part. pres.; syn.: vagor, erro).

Lit.:

palantes comites quom montes inter opacos Quaerimus et magna dispersos voce ciemus,

Lucr. 4, 575; cf. id. 5, 973:

vagi per agros palantur,

Liv. 5, 44; cf.:

vagi palantesque per agros,

id. 21, 61, 2; Sall. J. 18, 2; 44, 5:

agmen per agros palatur,

Liv. 27, 47:

palantes in agris oppressit,

id. 1, 11:

palantes extra castra,

Tac. A. 1, 30:

boves palati ab suis gregibus,

Liv. 22, 17, 4:

palatos aggressus,

id. 35, 51:

ex fugā palati,

id. 8, 24; 3, 5:

palantes error de tramite pellit,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 49:

terga dabant palantia Teucri,

Verg. A. 12, 738:

palantia sidera,

Lucr. 2, 1031; so,

palantesque polo stellas,

Verg. A. 9, 21; Plin. 9, 35, 55, § 111:

palanti amni (Nilo),

Plin. Pan. 30, 3:

insectari palantes hostes,

Just. 15, 3, 11:

palantia monstra,

Val. Fl. 4, 506.—

Trop.:

errare atque viam palantes quaerere vitae,

Lucr. 2, 10:

palantes homines passim ac rationis egentes,

Ov. M. 15, 150.

per-văgor, ātus, 1, v. dep. n. and a., to wander or range through, to rove about, overrun (class.).

Lit.:

hic praedonum naviculae pervagatae sunt,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 37, § 98:

iis imperat, ut omnibus in locis pervagentur,

Caes. B. G. 7, 45:

natio pervagata bello prope orbem terrarum,

Liv. 38, 17; 1, 29.—

Trop.

To spread out, extend:

quod in exteris nationibus usque ad ultimas terras pervagatum est,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 28, § 64:

ardores in agris pervagantes,

Vitr. 2, 6.—

To spread through, pervade:

timores omnium mentes pervagantur,

Cic. Leg. 1, 11, 32:

dolor omnia membra pervagabatur,

Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 6; 6, 10, 3.—

To be widely spread, to become common:

ne is honos nimium pervagetur,

Cic. Inv. 2, 39, 113.—Hence, pervăgātus, a, um, P. a.

Spread out, wide-spread, well known:

longe et late pervagata anteponantur angustis,

Cic. Top. 18, 69:

pervagatissimus versus,

id. Or. 43, 147:

declamatio,

id. Planc. 19, 47:

sermo,

id. Mil. 12, 33; cf. id. de Or. 1, 36, 165:

gloria,

id. Marcell. 8, 26.—

Common, general:

pervagatior pars,

of a more general nature, Cic. Inv. 2, 14, 47.

sōlĭvăgus, a, um, adj. [solus - vagor] (Ciceron.).

Lit., wandering or roving alone; of animals that lead a solitary life:

earum (bestiarum) partim solivagas, partim congregatas,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 13, 38.—Of persons:

non est enim singulare nec solivagum genus hoc (hominum),

id. Rep. 1, 25, 39:

(elephanti) minume ex omnibus solivagi,

Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 23; v. solitarius.—

Transf., alone, by itself, single, solitary (rare):

caelo solivago et volubili et in orbem incitato,

Cic. Univ. 6, 18:

solivaga, cognitio et jejuna,

contracted, id. Off. 1, 44, 157:

virginitas,

standing alone, incomparable, Mart. Cap. 1, § 40.

vāgĭo, īvi or ĭi, 4, v. n. [root vāk-, vāg-; cf. Ved. vacati, roars; Lat. vacca, 2. vagor: idcirco vagire dicitur, exprimente verbo sonum vocis recentis, Varr. ap. Gell. 16, 17, 2]; of young children, to cry, squall.

Lit.:

audivisse vocem pueri visu'st vagientis,

Ter. Hec. 4, 1, 2:

repuerascere et in cunis vagire,

Cic. Sen. 23, 83:

videtis... populum non ut in cunabulis vagientem, sed adultum,

id. Rep. 2, 11, 21; Ov. F. 2, 405; 4, 208; 6, 146; Stat. S. 4, 8, 35 al.—Of young goats, acc. to Varr. L. L. 7, § 104 Müll.; cf.

vagitus.—Of young hares, Auct. Carm. Philom. 60.—Of swine,

Mart. 3, 58, 37.—

Transf., to sound: clamor ad caelum volvendu' per aethera vagit, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 104 Müll. (Ann. v. 520 Vahl.).