vado

1.

vādo (vāsi, Tert. Pall. 3), 3, v. n. [cf. Sanscr. root gā-, go; Gr. BA, ainô], to go, walk; esp. to go hastily or rapidly, to rush (syn. incedo).

I.

Lit. (rare but class.): vadunt solidā vi, Enn. ap. Gell. 20, 10 (Ann. v. 277 Vahl.): ingenti cursu, id. ap. Fest. p. 363 Müll. (Ann. v. 470 Vahl.):

cum feras bestias videamus alacres et erectas vadere, ut alteri bestiae noceant,

Auct. Her. 2, 19, 29:

vadit fremit refringit virgulta pede vago,

Cat. 63, 86:

vadimus inmixti Danais,

Verg. A. 2 396:

ad eum (Pompeium) postridie mane vadebam,

Cic. Att. 4, 10, 2:

ad amnem,

Ov. M. 11, 137:

inde in primum aditum pontis, Liv 2, 10, 5: in hostem,

to stride on, advance, id. 7, 24, 6:

haud dubi am in mortem,

Verg. A. 2, 359:

per hostes,

Tac. H. 3, 41:

cras mane vadit,

Cic. Att. 14, 11, 2:

vadite, et haec memores regi mandata referte,

Verg. A. 11, 176; 4, 223; Hor. Ep. 1, 13, 19.—

B.

Of inanimate things:

Euphrates in Mesopotamiam vadit per ipsam Seleuciam,

Plin. 5, 26, 21, § 90:

circulus per medios Parthos,

id. 6, 34, 39, § 213. —

II.

Trop.:

ardua per praeceps gloria vadit iter,

Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 74:

vadit animus in praeceps sciens, etc.,

Sen. Hippol. 180:

eruditi et rude vulgus in eam (sententiam) cursu vadit,

Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 23; App. M. 2, p. 117, 27.

2.

vădo, āre, v. a. [vadum], to wade through, ford:

flumina, quae sine pontibus vadari nequeunt,

Veg. Mil. 2, 25:

quia neque navium copia pro tempore erat, neque vadari fluvius poterat,

Sulp. Sev. Chron. 1, 22, 3.