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vacillating between the parties

  • 1 vagus

    văgus, a, um, adj. [root vagh-; Sanscr. vāhas; Gr. ochos, wagon; cf. veho], strolling about, rambling, roving, roaming, wandering, [p. 1953] unfixed, unsettled, vagrant (freq. and class.; syn. errabundus).
    I.
    Lit.:

    cum vagus et exsul erraret,

    Cic. Clu. 62, 175:

    itaque vagus esse cogitabam,

    id. Att. 7, 11, 5:

    dum existimabam vagos nos fore,

    id. ib. 7, 26, 3:

    Gaetuli vagi, palantes,

    Sall. J. 18, 2; cf. id. ib. 19, 5:

    multitudo dispersa atque vaga,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 25, 40 (from Aug. Ep. 138, 10):

    quae circum vicinos vaga es,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 14:

    navita,

    Tib. 1, 3, 39:

    mercator,

    Hor. A. P. 117:

    Hercules,

    id. C. 3, 3, 9:

    scurra,

    id. Ep. 1, 15, 28:

    tibicen,

    id. A. P. 215:

    pecus,

    id. C. 3, 13, 12:

    aves,

    id. ib. 4, 4, 2:

    cornix,

    id. ib. 3, 27, 16:

    pisces,

    id. S. 2, 4, 77:

    vagi per silvas ritu ferarum,

    Quint. 8, 3, 81; cf.

    also: saepe vagos extra limina ferte pedes,

    Ov. A. A. 3, 418:

    refringit virgulta pede vago,

    Cat. 63, 84:

    ne bestiae quidem... facile patiuntur sese contineri motusque solutos et vagos a naturā sibi tributos requirunt,

    unrestrained, Cic. Fin. 5, 20, 56:

    peregrinationes,

    Sen. Tranq. 2, 13:

    errores,

    Ov. M. 4, 502:

    gressus,

    Mart. 2, 57, 1.—Of inanim. things:

    quae (sidera) autem vaga et mutabili erratione labuntur,

    Cic. Univ. 10; cf.:

    quae (stellae) errantes et quasi vagae nominarentur,

    id. Rep. 1, 14, 22:

    Aurorā exoriente vagi sub limina Solis,

    Cat. 64, 271:

    luna,

    Hor. S. 1, 8, 21:

    aequora,

    Tib. 2, 6, 3:

    flumina,

    Hor. C. 1, 34, 9:

    Tiberis,

    id. ib. 1, 2, 18:

    venti,

    id. ib. 3, 29, 24:

    fulmina,

    Ov. M. 1, 596:

    flamma,

    Hor. S. 1, 5, 73:

    crines,

    Ov. M. 2, 673:

    harena,

    flying, light, Hor. C. 1, 28, 23:

    domus (Scytharum),

    id. ib. 3, 24, 10:

    lumina noctis,

    Stat. Th. 3, 63:

    febres,

    sporadic, Cels. 3, 5:

    fel toto corpore,

    diffusing itself, Plin. 11, 37, 75, § 193.—
    II.
    Trop., wandering, wavering, unsteady, inconstant, doubtful, uncertain, vague:

    (in oratione) solutum quiddam sit nec vagum tamen,

    capricious, Cic. Or. 23, 77:

    genus orationum,

    id. Brut. 31, 119; cf.:

    pars quaestionum vaga et libera et late patens,

    indefinite, vague, id. de Or. 2, 16, 67:

    nomen Ambrosiae et circa alias herbas fluctuatum,

    Plin. 27, 4, 11, § 28:

    de dis immortalibus habere non errantem et vagam, sed stabilem certamque sententiam,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 1, 2:

    vaga volubilisque fortuna,

    id. Mil. 26, 69: vaga popularisque supplicatio, irregular, i. e. celebrated as men chanced to meet, without legal appointment, Liv. 3, 63, 5:

    incertum diu et quasi vagum imperium,

    Suet. Vesp. 1:

    vagus adhuc Domitius,

    i. e. vacillating between the parties, Vell. 2, 76, 2:

    puellae,

    inconstant in love, Prop. 1, 5, 7:

    vagae moderator juventae,

    flighty, giddy, Mart. 2, 90, 1; Stat. S. 4, 6, 2:

    concubitu prohibere vago,

    i. e. promiscuous, Hor. A. P. 398; so Col. 12, 1, 2; Mart. 6, 21, 6.— Poet., with gen.:

    vagus animi,

    wandering in mind, Cat. 63, 4.—adv.: văgē, here and there, far and wide, dispersedly:

    vage effusi per agros palatique, etc.,

    Liv. 26, 39, 22:

    res sparsae et vage disjectae,

    Auct. Her. 4, 2, 3:

    dispergere,

    id. ib. 4, 31, 42:

    dicere,

    Sen. Q. N. 2, 48, 2.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > vagus

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