Vestigium, stígij, n. g. Vi. The print of a mans foote: a footestep: a trace or tracke. A token of any thing.Video vestigium in puluere.Plaut.Vestigium hîc requiro qu aufugit.Plaut. Vestigium.Virg.The sole of the foote.A duersis vestigijs cõtra nostra vestigia stant antipodes. Ci. A vestigio ad verticem, Vide A præpositionem.Carnosum vestigium. Plin. A fleshie foote. Vestigium cams. Col. The print of a dogs foote. Vestigium equi excussum vngula. Plin. An horse shoe shaken off from the hoofe. VestigiÛ corporis. C. The print where the body bath lien. Cæca vestigia.Virg.Going in an obscure or darke place.Communia vestigia.Plin. iun.Certa vestigia. Quint. Fœda. Virg.Errabunda.Virg. Irrita. Virg.Taciturna vestigia ferre gradu suspenso digitis. Ouidi. To go soft and faire on his taes for making of noise. Consequi vestigijs.Cic.To followe one foote by foote: to follow by the trace.Delere pedum vestigia. Sta. Excipere vestigia fugientis. Curt. Facere vestigia in loco aliquo.Cic.To go in anye place.Fallere vestigium dicitur locus lubricus. Curt. To make ones foote to slip or slide, that he cannot treade sure.Ferre vestigia perignes. Propert. To go through the fire.Figere ebria vestigia. Claud. To step like a dronken man.Fimare vestigia. Virg. Flectere vestigia aliquò. Ouid.Flectere vestigia.Stat.To turne backe.Hærere in vestigio. Plin. To stande still in a place, and not to moue his foote.Hærere vestigio suo non posse.Liu.Not to be able to stand on his feete.Impedire vestigia cursu.Virg.To run nowe and then.Implere vestigia alicuius.Plin. iun.To artaine to as greate perfection in honestie as one.Imprimere vestigium.Cicer.To set his foote: to leaue the print of his foote.Inflectec vestigia cursus sui. Cice. To turne aside out of the race that he is in.Ingredi vestigijs patrijs, Vide INGREDIOR.Inhærere vestigijs prioribus, Vide INHAEREO.Insistere vestigia certa viæ. Lucre. To followe on the verye way that the beast hath gone.Vt vestigium illud ipsum, in quo ille postremÛ instirisset, contueremur.Cicer.That we might see the place where he did last sec his soote.Insistere vestigijs, Vide INSISTO.Insistere alienis vestigijs. Quint. To folowe an other mans steps.Insistere vestigijs laudum suarum, Vide INSISTO.Instare vestigijs alterius, Vide INSTO.Interdicere vestigijs, Vide INTERDICO.Lustrare vestigia alicuius Virg.Mouere vestigium. Curt. To departe: to go away.Moucre se vestigio.Liu.To cemoue out of his place.Nusquam te vestigio moueris.Liui.See thou remoue not out of thy place.Obterere vestigia, Vide OBTERO.Occumbere in vestigio.Tacit.To die in the place where he standech.Permulcere vestigia lymphis. Catul. To washe his feete.Persequi vestigia alicuius, Vide PERSEQVOR.Persequi aliquem vestigijs iplins. Ci. To followe one by the print of his foote, or by the tracke or trace: to trace.Persequi aliqucm vestigijs ipsius.Cic.To accuse one by to-kens, markes, or writings that be had left behinde hint.Vbicun que posnit vestigia.Cic.Wheresoeuer he did set his foote by al the way that he went.Ponere vestigia summa arena.Virg.Quacunque ingredimur, in aliquam historiam vestigium ponimus.Cic.We touch some historie.Premere vestigia alicuius. Tac. To followe one hard at the heeles.Premere vestigia.Virg.To stop: to stay his pace.Premere vestigia leuiter.Cic.To set his foote so softly that the print may scant be seene.Relinquere vestigium auaritiæ.Cic.To leaue a token of his couetousnesse.Admisso sequitur vestigia passu.Ouid.Retro sequi vestigia. Vir. To folow one & come behind him.Sequi certa vestigia. Quint. Tenuia vix summo vestigia puluere signat. Sil. Hee scant leaueth the print of his feete in the dust.Spargere vestigia fugæ. Curt. Sparsa vestigia. Ouid.Spectantia retrorsum vestigia. Hor. Stare in vestigio. Author ad Heren. To stande still, and not remoue out of his place.Canis stringit vestigia leporis.Ouid.The greyhounde is so nigh the hare that he pintcheth or toncheth hir.Tenere vestigia inconcussa. Lucan. To abide constantly in his opinion.Tirubata vestigia.Virg.Slipperie steppes: sliding steps.Torquere vestigia.Virg.To returne.Trahere ebria vestigia. Propert. To drawe his legges like a dronken man.Turbare incerta fugæ vestigia. Luca. In fleing not to go on streight, but now this way, nowe that way, to the ende to deceine his enimie pursning him. Omnibus vestigijs indagare.Cic.To search by al meanes to know the truth of a matter. Vestigium.Cic.A token, signe, or marke of any thing.Pauca tamen suberunt priscæ vistigia fraudis.Virg.In vultuq; vider vestigia risus. Lucr. Tokens of, &c.Cuius rei neq; index, neq; vestigium aliquod, neq: suspicio cuiquam esset vlla. Ci. Amoris vestigia.Cic.Tokens of loue.Annulorum vestigiÛ. Pli. The print that rings haue made on ones fingers.Nullum vestigium ciuitatis.Cic.No signe or token of a citie or common weale.Ne vestigium quidem vllum est reliquum nobìs dignitatis Cic.We haue not so much as one token of our honor left.Fortitudinis humanitatis, & consilij vestigia.Cic.Ne quod iudiciorum esset vestigiÛ.Cic.That there might be no token of the administration of iustice remayning.Manebant etiam tum vestigia morientis libertatis.Tacit.There were euen then some tokens remaining, &c.Vestigia antiqui officij remanent.Cic.Some tokens of old honestie remaine.Olfactus vestigia non habent delphini. Plini. There is no appearance that Dolphins haue the sense of smelling.Vnum aliquod Cluentio profectæ pecuniæ vestigium ostende.Cic.Shewe one signe or token that Clueutius deliuered any money.Violatæ religionis vestigium.Cic.Extant expressa sceleris vestigia.Cic.Stirpis vestigia ostendere. Curt. To shew tokens of the race he commeth of.Tumoris vestigium. Pli. The marke or print where a swelling bath beene.Indicia & vestigia veneni.Cic.Non vidisses fratrÊ tuum: ne vestigium quidem cius, nec fimulachrum, sed quandã effig em spirantis mortui. Ci. Vestigio tÊporis Cæs.Euen at the very moment or point.Eodem & loci vestigio & temporis.Cic.Euen in the same place, and at the same time.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
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 a)nti/podas 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, 14fin.—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.