To walke: to stirre about: to goe: to iourney. Ambulare pedibus. Plaut. To go a foote. Ambulare passus quingentos. Plin. Ambulant aues. Plin. When they go by steps as the Crane, and hoppe not. Ambulat fluuius. Plin. Ambulant naues, Cato. Ambusare maria. Cic. Quum Xerxes maria ambulauisset. Gone ouer the sea by the bridge. Ambulare foro transuerso. Cicer. Duerthwart the common place. Ambulare in litore. Cic. Ambulare in sole. Cic. Recté ambulare. Cic. To take his lourney streight. Ambulare in ius. Plaut. To come besore a indge. Ambulat hoc caput per omnes leges. Plin. This clause is often repeated in all the lawes. Ambulari. Passiuum in tertijs personis Pli. Si statim bina stadia ambulentur. Ambulans cœna. Mart. When a dish or sernice goeth through the table for lacke of meate.

I. Lit.

A. In gen., to go about, to walk: cum illā neque cubat neque ambulat, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 56: si non ubi sedeas locus est, est ubi ambules, id. Capt. prol. 12: quem ad modum quis ambulet, sedeat, Cic. Fin. 5, 17, 47: sedetur, ambulatur, Varr. L. L. 6, 1, p. 72 Müll.: ambulatum est, Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 1; Sen. Ep. 113, 15: cum sedeatur, ambuletur, discumbatur, Gell. 2, 2: standi ambulandi vices, Quint. 11, 3, 44: ambulans aut jacens, Plin. Ep. 9, 36; Gell. 2, 9: cum ambulantis Tiberii genua advolveretur, Tac. A. 1, 13: aves aliquae ambulant, ut cornices; aliae saliunt, ut passeres, walk, Plin. 10, 38, 54, 111: Aegyptii mures bipedes ambulant, id. 10, 64, 85, 186: claudi ambulant, Vulg. Matt. 11, 5; ib. Joan. 1, 36; ib. Apoc. 2, 1; 9, 20.—Hence,

B. Esp., to walk for recreation, to take a walk: abiit ambulatum, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 96: visus sum mihi cum Galbā ambulare, Cic. Ac. 2, 16, 51: cum in sole ambulem, etiamsi aliam ob causam ambulem, etc., id. de Or. 2, 14, 60: pedibus ambulare, Suet. Dom. 19.—

C. To go, to travel, to journey (class.), Plaut. Capt. prol. 12: quo ambulas tu? id. Am. 1, 1, 185; Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 17: biduo aut triduo septingenta milia passuum ambulare, Cic. Quint. 25; id. Att. 9, 4 fin.: eo modo Caesar ambulat, ut, etc., id. ib. 8, 14 et saep.—Hence, in the comic poets, bene ambula, farewell, a good journey to you, a form oft. used at the departure of any one: bene ambula et redambula, farewell and farewell back, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 120: Ty. Bene ambulato. Ph. Bene vale, id. ib. 2, 3, 92; and absol.: ambula, go, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 139: ambulare in jus, to go into court, go to law: ambula in jus, Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 23; Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 43.—

D. To walk about with a certain gravity or importance: licet superbus ambules pecuniā. Hor. Epod. 4, 5; id. S. 1, 2, 25; 1, 4, 66.—

E. Of inanimate things: amnis, quā naves ambulant, Cato, R. R. 1, 3: Nilus immenso longitudinis spatio ambulans, Plin. 5, 9, 10, 51: velut intus ambulantem (lucem), id. 37, 9, 47, 131.—Trop. (only post-Aug.): quod deinde caput translatum per omnes leges ambulavit, was afterwards added to all laws, Plin. 10, 50, 71, 139; Dig. 4, 4, 15: ambulat cum domino bonorum possessio, ib. 37, 11, 2.—

F. Act., esp. with cognate objects, as iter, via, etc., to navigate, sail, pass over, etc.: cum Xerxes tantis classibus tantisque copiis maria ambulavisset terramque navigāsset, Cic. Fin. 2, 34: perpetuas ambulat illa vias, Ov. F. 1, 122 (cf.: ire iter, viam, etc., Burm. ad Prop. 2, 19, 50).— Pass.: si bina stadia ambulentur, Plin. 23, 1, 16, 26.—

G. In milit. lang. t. t., to march: ut ter in mense tam equites quam pedites educantur ambulatum, Veg. Mil. 1, 27.—

H. In the jurists in opp. to ire: iter est jus eundi ambulandi hominis, of one going and coming, Dig. 3, 8, 1.—

II. Trop. very freq. in eccl. Lat. (like Heb. and N. T. Gr. peripate/w), to walk, in the sense of to live, with an adjunct of manner or circumstances: ambulavit Henoch cum Deo, Vulg. Gen. 5, 22: ut ambules in viis ejus (Dei), ib. Deut. 10, 12: qui ambulant in lege Domini, ib. Psa. 118, 1: in circuitu impii ambulant, ib. ib. 11, 9: fraudulenter ambulare, ib. Prov. 11, 13.—So also very freq. in N. T., but only once in this sense in the Gospels: quare discipuli tui non ambulant juxta traditionem seniorum? Vulg. Marc. 7, 5: qui non secundum carnem ambulant, ib. Rom. 8, 1: in carne ambulantes, ib. 2 Cor. 10, 3: honeste ambulare, ib. Rom. 13, 13: ut ambuletis digne Deo, ib. Col. 1, 10: quod non recte ambularent, ib. Gal. 2, 14 et persaepe.