vehicle

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conveyance, vehicle.

gestāmen, inis, n. [id.].

That which is borne or worn, a burden, load; ornaments, accoutrements, arms, etc. ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

clipeus, magni gestamen Abantis,

Verg. A. 3, 286;

so of a shield,

Sil. 5, 349:

hoc Priami gestamen erat,

Verg. A. 7, 246:

haruspices religiosum id gestamen (sc. margaritas) amoliendis periculis arbitrantur,

Plin. 32, 2, 11, § 23; cf. id. 37, 8, 33, § 111:

speculum, gestamen Othonis,

Juv. 2, 99:

(asini),

a burden, load, App. M. 7, p. 197:

gestaminis lapsi tinnitus,

Amm. 16, 5, 4.— Plur.:

cognovi clipeum laevae gestamina nostrae,

Ov. M. 15, 163; cf.:

ista decent humeros gestamina nostros,

id. ib. 1, 457;

13, 116: sua virgo Deae gestamina reddit,

i. e. a necklace, Val. Fl. 6, 671; App. M. 11, p. 258; 3, p. 141.—

That with or in which any thing is carried.

A litter, sedan:

quotiens per urbes incederet, lecticae gestamine fastuque erga patrias epulas,

Tac. A. 2, 2; cf.:

Agrippina gestamine sellae Baias pervecta,

a sedan - chair, id. ib. 14, 4; so,

sellae,

id. ib. 15, 57 (for which:

gestatoria sella,

Suet. Ner. 26; id. Vit. 16).—

A carriage, vehicle:

in eodem gestamine sedem poscit,

id. ib. 11, 33.—

Any means of conveyance:

comes celsi vehitur gestamine conti,

Val. Fl. 6, 71:

lento gestamine vilis aselli,

Sedul. 4, 297.

jūmentum, i, n. [contr. from jugimentum, from jungo]:

jumenta ducunt,

Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 27; a beast used for drawing or carrying, draught-cattle, a beast of bur- den, esp. a horse, mule, or ass (class.):

cum illam curru vehi jus esset, morarenturque jumenta,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 47, 113; Caes. B. C. 1, 60:

jumento nihil opus est, i. e. equo,

Cic. Att. 12, 32:

sarcinaria,

beasts of burden, Caes. B. C. 1, 81:

non jumenta solum, sed elephanti etiam,

Liv. 21, 37:

vectus jumentis junctis,

Nep. Tim. 4:

servi ut taceant, jumenta loquentur,

Juv. 9, 103.—Freq. opp. boves:

jumenta bovesque,

Col. 6, 19; cf. Amm. 16, 12, 22; 35:

jumentis legatis boves non continentur,

Paul. Sent. 3, 6, 74.— Sing. collect.:

vultur, jumento et canibus relictis, etc.,

Juv. 14, 77.—

A carriage, vehicle, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 28.

jungo, nxi, nctum, 3, v. a. [Sanscr. jug, junagmi, to unite; juk, joined; Goth. juk; O. H. Germ. joh, joch; Gr. zug, zeugnumi, zugos, zugon], to join or unite together, connect, attach, fasten, yoke, harness.

Lit.

In gen.

With acc.:

Narcissum et florem anethi,

Verg. E. 2, 48:

pontes et propugnacula,

id. A. 9, 170:

nemoris carentia sensu robora,

Claud. B. G. 17:

gradus,

to close the ranks, Sil. 4, 372:

montes,

to heap up, Val. Fl. 1, 198:

ostia,

to shut, Juv. 9, 105; cf.:

junctas quatere fenestras,

Hor. C. 1, 25, 1:

oscula,

to exchange, Ov. M. 2, 357; cf. id. Am. 2, 5, 59; Petr. 67:

da jungere dextram,

to clasp, Verg. A. 6, 697:

cur dextrae jungere dextram non datur,

id. ib. 1, 408; cf.:

quas junximus hospitio dextras,

id. ib. 3, 83;

11, 165: duos sinus,

Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 116:

juncto ponte milites transmittit,

Tac. A. 1, 49.—So with abl. of means or manner:

Ticinum ponte,

to span, Liv. 21, 45, 1:

amnem ponte,

Plin. 5, 24, 21, § 86:

ratibus flumen,

to bridge, Liv. 21, 47, 2; cf.:

qui biduo vix locum rate jungendo flumini inventum tradunt,

id. 21, 47, 6:

eo omnia vallo et fossa,

id. 38, 4, 6:

plumbum nigrum albo,

Plin. 33, 5, 30, § 94; cf.:

nam calamus cera jungitur,

Tib. 2, 5, 32:

illos defendit numerus junctaeque umbone phalanges,

Juv. 2, 46:

erga juncta est mihi foedere dextra,

Verg. A. 8, 169:

Pompei acies junxerat in seriem nexis umbonibus arma,

Luc. 7, 453. —

With dat. of indir. object:

hoc opus ad turrim hostium admovent, ut aedificio jungatur,

Caes. B. C. 2, 10 fin.:

humano capiti cervicem equinam,

Hor. A. P. 2:

mortua corpora vivis,

Verg. A. 8, 485; cf.:

his tignis contraria duo juncta,

Caes. B. G. 3, 17, 5:

se Romanis,

Liv. 24, 49, 1:

exercitum sibi,

Vell. 2, 80, 1:

socia arma Rutulis,

Liv. 1, 2, 3:

victores Germani juncturi se Pannoniis,

Suet. Tib. 17:

cervicem meam amplexui,

Petr. 86 dub. (Büch., vinxit amplexu):

dextra dextrae jungitur,

Ov. M. 6, 447; cf. Verg. A. 1, 408 supra:

aeri aes plumbo fit uti jungatur ab albo,

Lucr. 6, 1079:

juncta est vena arteriis,

Cels. 2, 10:

Comius incensum calcaribus equum jungit equo Quadrati,

drives against, Hirt. B. C. 8, 48.—

With inter se:

tigna bina inter se,

Caes. B. G. 3, 17, 3:

maxime autem corpora inter se juncta permanent, cum, etc.,

Cic. N. D. 2, 45, 115:

disparibus calamis inter se junctis,

Ov. M. 1, 712:

saltus duo alti inter se juncti,

Liv. 9, 2, 7.—

With cum:

cum Bruto Cassioque vires suas,

Vell. 2, 65, 1:

legiones se cum Caesare juncturae,

id. 2, 110, 1:

erat cum pede pes junctus,

Ov. M. 9, 44:

lecto mecum junctus in uno,

id. H. 13, 117:

digitis medio cum pollice junctis,

id. F. 5, 433:

lingua cum subjecta parte juncta est,

Cels. 7, 12, 4.—

Esp.

To harness, yoke, attach.

Of animals: angues ingentes alites juncti jugo, Pac. ap. Cic. Inv. 1, 19, 27 (Trag. v. 397 Rib.):

junge pares,

i. e. in pairs, Verg. G. 3, 169; Grat. Cyneg. 263:

nec jungere tauros norant,

Verg. A. 8, 316:

currus et quatuor equos,

id. G. 3, 114:

grypes equis,

id. E. 8, 27 Forbig.:

curru jungit Halaesus Equos,

id. A. 7, 724:

leones ad currum,

Plin. 8, 16, 21, § 54:

mulis e proximo pistrino ad vehiculum junctis,

Suet. Caes. 31.—

Of a vehicle (rare):

reda equis juncta,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 25:

neve (mulier) juncto vehiculo veheretur,

Liv. 34, 1, 3:

juncta vehicula, pleraque onusta, mille admodum capiuntur,

id. 42, 65, 3. —

Of wounds, etc., to join, bring together, unite, heal:

ego vulnera doctum jungere Etiona petam,

Stat. Th. 10, 733:

parotidas suppuratas,

Scrib. Comp. 206:

oras (tumoris),

Cels. 7, 17, 1:

oras vulneris,

id. 5, 4, 23 al. —

Of lands, territories, etc.:

juncta pharetratis Sarmatis ora Getis,

adjoining, Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 110; cf.:

juncta Aquilonibus Arctos,

id. M. 2, 132:

quibus (campis) junctae paludes erant,

Front. Strat. 2, 5, 6; Vell. 2, 110, 4:

fundos Apuliae,

to add, join to, Petr. 77:

longos jungere fines agrorum,

Luc. 1, 167.—

To connect in time, cause to follow immediately:

cum diei noctem pervigilem junxisset,

Just. 12, 13, 7:

somnum morti,

Petr. 79:

vidit hic annus Ventidium consularem praetextam jungentem praetoriae,

Vell. 2, 65, 3:

nulla natio tam mature consino belli bellum junxit,

id. 2, 110, 5:

junge, puer, cyathos, atque enumerare labora,

Stat. S. 1, 5, 10:

laborem difficilius est repetere quam jungere,

to resume than to continue, Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 10.—So of pronunciation:

si jungas (opp. interpunctis quibusdam),

Quint. 9, 4, 108.—

Milit. t. t., of troops, an army, etc., to join, unite:

cum juncti essent,

Liv. 25, 35; 25, 37:

exercitum Pompei sibi,

Vell. 2, 80, 1:

junctis exercitious,

Vell. 2, 113, 1:

cum collegae se junxisset,

Front. Strat. 1, 1, 9; so,

exercitum,

id. ib. 1, 2, 9:

Ajacem naves suas Atheniensibus junxisse,

Quint. 5, 11, 40.—

To add, give in addition:

commoda praeterea jungentur multa caducis,

Juv. 9, 89.—

In mal. part.:

corpora,

Ov. M. 10, 464:

turpia corpora,

id. H. 9, 134: tu mihi juncta toro, id. F. 3, 511; id. R. Am. 408:

si jungitur ulla Ursidio,

Juv. 6, 41; 6, 448; cf.

Venerem,

Tib. 1, 9, 76; Ov. H. 353; id. R. Am. 407.

Transf.

In gen., of abstract things, to bring together, join, unite:

cum hominibus nostris consuetudines, amicitias, res rationesque jungebat,

Cic. Deiot. 9, 27:

omnem naturam, quae non solitaria sit... sed cum alio juncta atque conexa, etc.,

id. N. D. 2, 11, 29:

an virtus et voluptas inter se jungi copularique possint,

id. de Or. 1, 51, 122:

sapientiam junctam habere eloquentiae,

id. ib. 3, 35, 142:

indignationem conquestioni,

id. Inv. 2, 11, 36:

insignis improbitas et scelere juncta,

id. de Or. 2, 58, 237:

plura crimina junguntur,

are combined, Quint. 4, 4, 5.—

Esp.

Of persons, to join, unite, bring together, associate, in love, marriage, relationship, etc.:

cum impari,

Liv. 1, 46:

cum pare,

Ov. F. 4, 98:

alicujus filiam secum matrimonio,

Curt. 5, 3, 12:

si tibi legitimis pactam junctamque tabellis non es amaturus,

Juv. 6, 200:

juncta puella viro,

Ov. A. A. 1, 682; id. Tr. 2, 284. —Of animals, etc.:

Appulis jungentur capreae lupis,

Hor. C. 1, 33, 8:

variis albae junguntur columbac,

Ov. H. 15, 37:

unaque nos sibi operā amicos junget,

Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 32:

ut quos certus amor junxit,

Ov. M. 4, 156:

amicos,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 54:

Geminum mecum tua in me beneficia junxerunt,

Plin. Ep. 10, 26, 1:

puer puero junctus amicitia,

Ov. P. 4, 3, 12.—Esp., of a treaty, alliance, etc.:

si populus Romanus foedere jungeretur regi,

Liv. 26, 24; Just. 15, 4, 24. —

Of things, to make by joining, enter into:

pacem cum Aenea, deinde adfinitatem,

Liv. 1, 1:

nova foedera,

id. 7, 30:

cum Hispanis amicitiam,

Just. 43, 5, 3:

societatem cum eo metu potentiae ejus,

id. 22, 2, 6:

foedus cum eo amicitiamque,

Liv. 24, 48; 23, 33:

juncta societas Hannibali,

id. 24, 6:

foedera,

id. 7, 30:

jungendae societatis gratia,

Just. 20, 4, 2.—

Of words, etc., to join, unite.

Esp., gram. t. t.: verba jungere, to make by joining, to compound:

jungitur verbum ex corrupto et integro, ut malevolus,

Quint. 1, 5, 68:

in jungendo aut in derivando,

id. 8, 3, 31; so,

juncta verba,

Cic. Or. 56, 186; id. Part. Or. 15, 53.—

To connect so as to sound agreeably:

quantum interest... verba eadem qua compositione vel in textu jungantur vel in fine claudantur,

Quint. 9, 4, 15.—Hence, P. a.: junc-tus, a, um, joined, united, connected, associated:

in opere male juncto,

Quint. 12, 9, 17.— Comp.:

causa fuit propior et cum exitu junctior,

Cic. Fat. 16, 36.— Sup.:

junctissimus illi comes,

most attached, Ov. M. 5, 69:

principum prosperis et alii fruantur: adversae ad junctissimos pertineant,

their nearest of kin, Tac. H. 4, 52.

plaustrum ( plostrum, Cato, R. R. 2, 10; 62; Varr. R. R. 1, 22, 3; cf. Suet. Vesp. 22: plaustra, ae, f., v. infra), i, n. [Sanscr. plavas, ship; prop., that which sways hither and thither; root plu-; Gr. pleô, plunô], a vehicle for carrying heavy loads, a wagon, wain, cart.

Lit. (class.):

vendat plostrum vetus,

Cato, R. R. 2, 7; Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 31:

in plaustrum conici,

Cic. Div. 1, 27, 57:

stridentia plaustra,

Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 59; id. M. 2, 177:

sicut stridet plaustrum onustum foeno,

Vulg. Amos, 2, 13:

tecta,

id. Num. 7, 3.—Prov.:

plaustrum perculi,

I have upset! I am done for! Plaut. Ep. 4, 2, 22.—

Transf., the constellation Charles's Wain, the Great Bear ( poet.):

flexerat obliquo plaustrum temone Bootes,

Ov. M. 10, 447; id. P. 4, 10, 39; Amm. 15, 10, 2 (called plaustra Parrhasis, Sid. Carm. 5, 282 sq.).

prō-cumbo, cŭbŭi, cŭbĭtum, 3, v. n.

Lit., to fall forwards, fall or sink down, to prostrate one's self; of the wounded, the dying, suppliants, etc. (class.; cf.;

cado, ruo): procumbunt Gallis omnibus ad pedes Bituriges, ne pulcherrimam urbem succendere cogerentur,

Caes. B. G. 7, 15:

genibus, Ov M. 13, 585: ad genua alicujus, Liv 25, 7: ad pedes alicujus,

Gell. 10, 15, 10:

ante pedes,

Ov. M. 10, 415; Petr. 30:

templis,

Tib. 1, 5, 41 (1, 2, 83):

qui vulneribus confecti procubuissent,

Caes. B. G. 2, 27; so,

in genua,

Curt. 9, 5, 13:

Coroebus Penelei dextrā Procumbit,

Verg. A. 2, 424.—With dat. (post-Aug.):

sibi tres legiones procubuisse,

had yielded, Tac. A. 1, 59:

veteranae cohortes, quibus nuper Othonis legiones procubuerint,

id. H. 4, 17.— Poet., to fall upon, attack, Mart. 1, 60, 3.— To lean or bend forwards:

olli certamine summo Procumbunt,

i.e. they bend to their oars, Verg. A. 5, 197.—

Transf., of inanimate subjects, to lean forwards, bend down, sink, to be beaten or broken down (class.):

tigna prona ac fastigiata, ut secundum naturam fluminis procumberent,

Caes. B. G. 4, 17:

frumenta imbribus procubuerant,

i.e. were beaten down, id. ib. 6, 43:

ne gravidis procumbat culmus aristis,

Verg. G. 1, 111:

ulmus in aram ipsam procumbebat,

Plin. 16, 32, 57, § 132.—

Of buildings: (domus) in domini procubuit caput,

Ov. P. 1, 9, 14:

tecta super habitantes,

Quint. 2, 16, 6; Plin. Pan. 50, 3; Ov. M. 13, 176.—

To be upset, break down; of a vehicle: nam si procubuit qui saxa Ligustica portat Axis, Juv 3, 257.—

Trop., to fall or sink down ( poet. and post-Aug.): procumbere in voluptates, to sink into sen [p. 1454] suality, Sen. Ep. 18, 2:

procumbentem rem publicam restituere,

sinking, Vell. 2, 16, 4:

res procubuere meae,

Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 2.—

To extend, spread:

mons Haemus vasto jugo procumbens in Pontum,

Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 45:

planities sub radicibus montium spatiosa procumbit,

Curt. 5, 4, 6.

quā̆drīgae, ārum (collat. form in the sing. v. infra), f. [contr. from quadrijugae], a set or team of four, a four-abreast, fourin-hand, four together (class.).

Lit.

Of horses, applied to the animals with or without the car or vehicle, rarely to the car or chariot alone: quadrigarum currus duplici temone olim erant, perpetuoque, et qui omnibus equis iniceretur jugo. Primus Clisthenes Sicyonius tantum medios jugavit, eosque singulos ex utrāque parte simplici vinculo applicuit, quos Graeci seiraphorous, Latini funarios vocant, Isid. Orig. 17, 5:

exinde duabus admotis quadrigis, in currus earum distentum illigat Mettum,

Liv. 1, 28 fin.; so Col. 3, 9:

Glauci Potniades malis membra absumpsere quadrigae,

Verg. G. 3, 267 et saep.; Fest. s. v. October, p. 178 Müll.—

Of other animals:

quadrigae (asinorum),

Varr. R. R. 2, 1:

camelorum,

Suet. Ner. 11.—

Esp. freq. of the four-horse team used in races:

curru quadrigarum vehi,

Cic. Div. 2, 70, 144; id. Brut. 47, 173; id. Or. 47, 157; id. Mur. 27, 57:

cum carceribus sese effudere quadrigae,

Verg. G. 1, 512:

quadrigas agitare,

Suet. Caes. 39.—

Of the horses drawing a war chariot or car:

in extremis jugis binae eminebant falces... sic armatae quadrigae,

with scythes attached to the yokes, Liv. 37, 41, 8:

falcatae,

id. 37, 40, 12.—

Poet., of the four-horse team of the Sun, Aurora, Luna, etc.:

cum quadrigis Sol exoriens,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 226:

roseis Aurora quadrigis,

Verg. A. 6, 535:

nox aetherium nigris emensa quadrigis Mundum,

Tib. 3, 4, 17.— In sing. (post-class.):

quod unum ergo rarissimum videbatur, invenimus quadrigam numero singulari dictam in libro satirarum M. Varronis qui inscriptus est Exdemetricus,

Gell. 19, 8, 17; Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 39; 3, 9 (4, 8), 17; Mart. 6, 46; Grat. Cyn. 228; Plin. 7, 21, 21, § 85; 36, 5, 4, § 36; Suet. Vit. 17; Val. Max. 1, 8, 9 ext.; Dig. 31, 1, 67; Vulg. Isa. 43, 17; id. Zech. 6, 2 and 3 et saep.—

Transf.

Of abstract things:

initiorum quadrigae: locus et corpus, tempus et actio,

the four parts, Varr. L. L. 5, § 12 Müll.—

Of a chariot drawn by four horses, a chariot, car:

eburneis quadrigis ludere,

Suet. Ner. 22; cf. Liv. 37, 41, 8; 37, 40, 12, supra:

apta quadrigis equa,

Hor. C. 2, 16, 35. —

Trop.

The rapid course of any thing: irarumque effunde quadrigas, i. e. give free course to your wrath, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 12, 499 (Ann. v. 464 Vahl.; for which Verg., in this [p. 1500] passage, irarumque omnes effundit habenas):

numquam edepol quadrigis albis indipiscet postea (as an image of great speed),

Plaut. As. 2, 2, 13:

quadrigae poëticae,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 13 (15 a), 2; cf.:

quadrigas inscendere Jovis,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 294; id. Aul. 4, 1, 13; id. Poen. 1, 2, 155:

jam quadrigae meae decucurrerunt,

i.e. my joy, cheerfulness, is gone, Petr. 64:

navibus atque Quādrigis petimus bene vivere,

i.e. by sea and land, in every way, Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 29.—

Of the union of four persons or things in a common work:

quadrigae tyrannorum,

Vop. Prob. 24:

initiorum quadrigae, locus et corpus, tempus et actio,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 12 Müll.

vĭa ( vĕa, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 14), ae ( gen. sing. vias, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 679 P., or Ann. v. 421 Vahl.; viāï, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 6, 16, or Ann. v. 209 ib.; Lucr. 1, 406; 1, 659; 2, 249 et saep.; dat. plur. VIEIS, Inscr. Lat. 206, 50), f. [Sanscr. vah-āmi, bring, lead; Gr. ochos, ochêma, vehicle; Germ. Wagen; Engl. wagon; from this root are also veho, vexo, etc.], a way, in the most general sense (for men, beasts, or carriages, within or without a city), a highway, road, path, street.

Lit.

In gen.:

viae latitudo ex lege duodecim tabularum in porrectum octo pedes habet, in anfractum, id est ubi flexum est, sedecim,

Dig. 8, 3, 8:

Romam in montibus positam et convallibus, non optimis viis, angustissimis semitis,

Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 96:

et modo quae fuerat semita, facta via est,

Mart. 7, 61, 4:

aut viam aut semitam monstret,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 3, 30:

mi opsistere in viā,

id. Curc. 2, 3, 5:

ire in viā,

Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 42:

omnibus viis notis semitisque essedarios ex silvis emittebat,

Caes. B. G. 5, 19 (opp. semita), id. ib. 7, 8; Liv. 44, 43, 1; cf.:

decedam ego illi de viā,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 80; cf. id. Curc. 2, 3, 8:

paulum ad dexteram de viā declinavi,

Cic. Fin. 5, 2, 5:

decedere viā,

Suet. Tib. 31:

aestuosa et pulverulenta via,

Cic. Att. 5, 14, 1:

quā (viā) Sequanis invitis propter angustias ire non poterant,

Caes. B. G. 1, 9:

cursare huc illuc viā deterrimā,

Cic. Att. 9, 9, 2:

in viam se dare,

to set out on a journey, id. Fam. 14, 12:

te neque navigationi neque viae committere,

id. ib. 16, 4, 1:

tu abi tuam viam,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 88:

milites monuit, viā omnes irent, nec deverti quemquam paterentur,

along the highway, Liv. 25, 9, 4.—In a double sense:

ire publicā viā,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 35.—Prov.: qui sibi semitam non sapiunt, alteri monstrant viam, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 58, 132 (Trag. v. 358 Vahl.):

de viā in semitam degredi,

Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 40:

totā errare viā,

Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 14.—

In partic., as the name of a particular street or road:

tres ergo viae, a supero mari Flaminia, ab infero Aurelia, media Cassia,

Cic. Phil. 12, 9, 22:

Via Appia,

id. Mil. 6, 15; id. Imp. Pomp. 18, 55; cf. Liv. 9, 29, 6;

v. Appius: Via Campana,

Suet. Aug. 94;

v. Campania: Sacra Via, in Rome, in the fourth region,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 47 Müll.; Fest. p. 290 ib.; Cic. Planc. 7, 17; Hor. Epod. 4, 7; 7, 8:

Via Sacra,

id. S. 1, 9, 1;

also written as one word, SACRAVIA,

Inscr. Grut. 638, 7; 1033, 1; cf. Charis. p. 6 P.; Diom. p. 401 ib. (v. sacer, I. A.); cf. Becker, Antiq. 1, p. 219 sq.— Hence, Sacrăvĭenses, ĭum, m., those dwelling on the Sacra Via, Fest. s. v. October equus, p. 178 Müll.—

Transf.

Abstr., like our way, for march, journey (syn. iter):

cum de viā languerem,

Cic. Phil. 1, 5, 12:

nisi de viā fessus esset,

id. Ac. 1, 1, 1: tridui via, a three days' march or journey, Caes. B. G. 1, 38:

bidui,

id. ib. 6, 7; Cic. Div. 1, 15, 27:

longitudo viae,

Liv. 37, 33, 3:

flecte viam velis,

Verg. A. 5, 28:

tum via tuta maris,

Ov. M. 11, 747:

feci Longa Pherecleā per freta puppe vias,

id. H. 16, 22:

ne inter vias praeterbitamus, metuo,

by the way, on the road, Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 43; Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 1; Turp. ap. Non. p. 538, 8 et saep.—

In gen., a way, passage, channel, pipe, etc.; thus, a lane in a camp, Caes. B. G. 5, 49; a passage between the seats of a theatre, Mart. 5, 14, 8; Tert. Spect. 3; of the veins:

omnes ejus (sanguinis) viae,

Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 137; of the chyle ducts:

quaedam a medio intestino usque ad portas jecoris ductae et directae viae,

id. ib.; the windpipe, Ov. M. 15, 344; 14, 498; a cleft through which any thing penetrates, Verg. G. 2, 79; cf. Ov. M. 11, 515; the path or track of an arrow, Verg. A. 5, 526; a stripe in a party-colored fabric, Tib. 2, 3, 54 et saep.—

Trop.

In gen., a way, method, mode, manner, fashion, etc., of doing any thing, course (cf. modus):

vitae,

Cic. Fl. 42, 105; id. Agr. 1, 9, 27; id. Sest. 67, 140; Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 26; Sen. Brev. Vit. 9, 5; Lact. Epit. 67, 12:

via vivendi,

Cic. Off. 1, 32, 118:

rectam vitae viam sequi,

id. ib.:

Socrates hanc viam ad gloriam proximam dicebat esse,

id. ib. 2, 12, 43:

haec ad aeternam gloriam via est,

Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 18:

haec una via omnibus ad salutem visa est,

Liv. 36, 27, 8:

invenire viam ad mortem,

Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 12:

totidem ad mortem viae sunt,

Sen. Contr. 1, 8, 6:

cum eum hortarer ut eam laudis viam rectissimam esse duceret,

Cic. Brut. 81, 281: haec est una via laudis, id. Sest. 65, 137:

totam ignoras viam gloriae,

id. Phil. 1, 14, 33:

quae tum promptissima mortis via, exsolvit venas,

Tac. A. 16, 17:

habeo certam viam atque rationem, quā omnes illorum conatus investigare et consequi possim,

Cic. Verr. 1, 16, 48:

defensionis ratio viaque,

id. ib. 2, 5, 1, §

4: non tam justitiae quam litigandi tradunt vias,

id. Leg. 1, 6, 18:

docendi via,

id. Or. 32, 114:

optimarum artium vias tradere,

id. Div. 2, 1, 1:

(di) non... nullas dant vias nobis ad significationum scientiam,

id. ib. 2, 49, 102:

rectam instas viam,

i. e. you speak correctly, truly, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 41.—Adverb.: rectā viā, directly:

ut rectā viā rem narret ordine omnem,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 28.—

Pregn. (cf. ratio), the right way, the true method, mode, or manner:

ingressu'st viam, i. e. rectam,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 273:

in omnibus quae ratione docentur et viā, primum constituendum est, quid quidque sit, etc.,

rationally and methodically, Cic. Or. 33, 116:

ut ratione et viā procedat oratio,

id. Fin. 1, 9, 29.—Adverb.: viā, rightly, properly (opp. to wandering out of the way):

ipsus eam rem secum reputavit viā,

Ter. And. 2, 6, 11:

viā et arte dicere,

Cic. Brut. 12, 46. —

Viam perficere, i. e. to attain an end, Just. Inst. proöem. 1.