passus

1.

passus, a, um, Part. and P. a. of 2. pando.

2.

passus, a, um, Part. of patior.

3.

passus, ūs, m. [from the root pat], a step, pace (cf.: gressus, gradus).

I.

Lit.: hinc campos celerl passu permensa parumper, Enn. ap. Non. 378, 20 (Ann. v. 74 Vahl.); Plaut. Bacch. 4, 7, 34; Lucr 4, 827; 877; Cic. Leg. 1, 21, 54:

sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis,

Verg. A. 2, 724:

nec longis inter se passibus absunt,

id. ib. 11, 907:

rapidis ferri Passibus,

id. ib. 7, 156; Ov. M. 11, 64:

per litora lentis Passibus spatiari,

id. ib. 2, 572:

passu anili procedere,

id. ib. 13, 533 et saep.:

passibus ambiguis Fortuna errat,

id. Tr. 5, 8, 15:

caelestis (of glory),

Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 18.—

II.

Transf.

A.

A footstep, track, trace:

si sint in litore passus,

Ov. H. 19, 27; id. P 2, 6, 21.—

B.

A pace, as a measure of length, consisting of five Roman feet:

stadium centum viginti quinque nostros officit passus, hoc est pedes sexcentos viginti quinque,

Plin. 2, 23, 21, § 85:

nec exercitum propius urbem millia passuum ducenta admoverit,

Cic. Phil. 7, 9, 26; id. Quint. 25, 79; id. Sest. 12, 29.