passim

passim. adv. [passus, from pando] (lit., spread or scattered about; hence), at or to different places, hither and thither, in every direction, at random.

I.

Lit. (class.): ille iit passim, ego ordinatim, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 2: sive pilatim sive passim iter facere volebat, Asellio ap. Serv. Verg. A. 12, 121:

Numidae quādam barbarā consuetudine nullis ordinibus passim consederant,

Caes. B. C. 2, 38:

Tyrii comites passim... diversa per agros Tecta metu petiere,

Verg. A. 4, 162:

plurima perque vias sternuntur inertia passim Corpora,

id. ib. 2, 364;

3, 510: volucres passim ac libere solutas opere volitare,

Cic. de Or 2, 6, 23; cf.:

volucres huc et illuc passim vagantes,

id. Div. 2, 38, 80:

passim per forum volitat,

id. Rosc. Am. 46, 135; id. Sull. 15, 42:

passim carpere, colligere undique,

id. de Or. 1, 42, 91: sparsi enim toto passim campo se diffuderunt, Liv 40, 33, 7;

41, 3, 7: quin etiam passim nostris in versibus ipsis Multa elementa vides, etc.,

Lucr. 1, 823; 2, 688; 6, 29.—

II.

Transf.

A.

Far and wide, everywhere, nearly = ubique (not ante-Aug.):

passim omnes clamoribus agunt,

Liv. 2, 45, 11:

pabula et ligna nec pauci petebant, nec passim,

id. 22, 12, 8:

non tamen haec. quia possunt bene aliquando fieri, passim facienda sunt,

Quint. 4, 1, 70; 6, 3, 4; 12, 10, 13:

passim et in quācumque parte nascuntur qui furunculi vocantur,

Plin. 26, 12, 77, § 125.—

B.

Without order, promiscuously, indiscriminately:

scribimus indocti doctique poëmata passim,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 117:

veteres passim semper amarunt,

Tib. 2, 3, 69 Dissen.: ut Saturnalibus exaequato omnium jure passim in conviviis servi cum dominis recumbant. Just. 43, 1, 4:

hunc puto effudisse hoc passim,

without discrimination, heedlessly, Lact. 3, 9, 5: atomi passim cohaerentes, without a plan, at random, id. de Ira, 10, 27.