vestigium

vestīgĭum, ii, n. [id.], a footstep, step; footprint, foot-track, track.

I.

Lit.:

currentium pes vestigium facit,

Quint. 9, 4, 67:

hac socci video vestigium in pulvere,

Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 29:

hominis,

Plin. 8, 4, 5, § 9:

in foro vestigium facere,

i. e. to set foot in the market, Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 48:

ponere vestigia,

id. Phil. 3, 12, 31:

facere vestigium in possessione,

id. Caecin. 14, 39:

vestigiis persequi aliquem,

id. Brut. 90, 307:

vestigiis sequi hostem,

Liv. 9, 45, 16: eodem remanere vestigio, to stay in the same spot or place, Caes. B. G. 4, 2:

negans e republicā esse, vestigium abscedi ab Hannibale,

the distance of a step, Liv. 27, 4, 1:

deus ille, quem mente noscimus, atque in animi notione tamquam in vestigio volumus reponere,

Cic. N. D. 1, 14, 37.—

B.

Transf.

1.

The part of the foot which makes a print, the sole of the foot: qui adversis vestigiis stent contra nostra vestigia, quos antipodas vocatis, Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123; Cat. 64, 162; Verg. A. 5, 566.—

2.

A horseshoe:

vestigium equi excussum ungulā,

Plin. 28, 20, 81, § 263.—

3.

In gen., a trace, mark, sign, token, vestige:

praesertim cum in lectulo decumanae mulieris vestigia viderent recentia,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 34, § 79; id. de Or. 3, 2, 6; Caes. B. G. 6, 27:

in vestigiis hujus urbis,

ruins, Cic. Cat. 4, 6, 12:

semiruta murorum vestigia,

Amm. 24, 2, 6.—

II.

Trop., of manners, cha racter, etc., a footprint, trace:

a pueritiā vestigiis ingressus patriis et tuis,

Cic. Rep. 6, 24, 26:

amoris vestigia,

Quint. 11, 1, 59:

imprimi quaedam vestigia animo,

id. 11, 2, 4:

patris patruique vestigia premere,

Tac. A. 2, 14 fin.—

B.

Transf., of time, a point, moment, instant:

eodem et loci vestigio et temporis,

Cic. Pis. 9, 21:

in illo vestigio temporis,

Caes. B. G. 7, 25:

vestigio temporis,

at the moment, instantly, forthwith, id. B. C. 2, 26:

ut urbs ab hostibus capta eodem vestigio videretur,

at that very moment, id. ib. 2, 7.—

b.

A dverb.: e (ex) vestigio, instantly, forthwith:

repente e vestigio ex homine tamquam aliquo Circaeo poculo factus est Verres,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 17, 57; Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2; Caes. B. C. 2, 25 fin.