avium

ā-vĭus, a, um, adj. [via], that is out of the way, remote, out of the right way; also, untrodden, unfrequented, solitary, lonely, etc. (while devius signifies leading from the right way; and invius, having no way, pathless; in the poets and histt. freq.).

I.

Lit.

A.

Silvani lucus extra murum est avius, Plaut. Aul. 4, 6, 8:

Avia Pieridum peragro loca, nullius ante Trita solo,

Lucr. 1, 926:

nemora avia,

id. 2, 145:

virgulta,

Verg. G. 2, 328:

montes,

Hor. C. 1, 23, 2:

aviis itineribus,

through by-ways, Sall. J. 54, 9:

cujus (Caesaris) sibi species itinere avio occurrisset,

Suet. Aug. 96:

solitudines,

Vell. 2, 55:

avia commeatibus loca,

Liv. 9, 19, 16.—Also,

B.

Subst.: āvĭum, ii, n., a by-way, a desert, wilderness; in a pun with avium, from avis: hunc avium dulcedo ducit ad avium, Auct. ad Her. 4, 21, 29.—More freq. in plur.: āvĭa, ōrum:

avia cursu Dum sequor, et notā excedo regione viarum,

Verg. A. 2, 737:

per avia ac derupta,

Tac. A. 6, 21: per avia, Ov M. 1, 701; 2, 205.—So with gen.: avia [p. 216] vinerum, Vell. 2, 75:

nemorum,

Ov. M. 1, 179:

saltuum,

Tac. A. 2. 68:

Oceani,

id. ib. 2, 15:

Armeniae,

id. ib. 13, 37.—

C.

Poet., of persons, wandering, straying:

Continuo in montes sese avius abdidit altos,

Verg. A. 11, 810.—

II.

Trop.:

Avius a verā longe ratione vagaris,

astray, Lucr. 2, 82; 2, 229; 2, 740;

3, 463: init nunc avia coepto Consilia,

i. e. leading away from the undertaking, Sil. 12, 493.