To eschew: to auoyde: to beware of. Cauendo vitare. Ci. Aestum vitare sub frondibus. Ouid. To stande vnder trees out of the heate. Amorem vitare. Lucret. Colpam vitaui. Hor. Contagia vitare. Ouid. Frigus vitare. Ci.

I. Lit.: tela, Caes. B. G. 2, 25: hastas, spicula, Hor. C. 1, 15, 18: lacum, Caes. B. C. 2, 24 fin.: rupem et puteum, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 135: aequora, id. C. 1, 14, 20: forum, id. Epod. 2, 7: balnea, id. A. P. 298: sapiens, vitatu quidque petitu Sit melius, causas reddet tibi, id. S. 1, 4, 115: insidias, Phaedr. 1, 19, 2: periculosum lucrum, id. 5, 4, 8: vitataque traxit in arma, Ov. M. 13, 39.—

II. Trop.

(a). With acc.: vitia, Cic. Rep. 2, 5, 10; Hor. S. 1, 2, 24: vituperationem, Cic. Prov. Cons. 18, 44: omnes suspitiones, Caes. B. G. 1, 20 fin.: periculum, id. B. C. 1, 70: mortem fugā, id. B. G. 5, 20: proditionem celeritate, Sall. J. 76, 1: culpam, Hor. A. P. 267: se ipsum, to shun one's self, be tired of one's own company, id. S. 2, 7, 113: impatientiam nauseae, Suet. Calig. 23.—

(b). With dat. (Plautin.): infortunio, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 19; id. Poen. prol. 25: huic verbo, id. Cas. 2, 2, 35: malo, Petr. 82.—

(g). With ne: erit in enumeratione vitandum, ne, etc., Cic. Part. Or. 17, 60: ne experiatur, Cels. 2, 17.—

(d). With inf.: tangere vitet Scripta, Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 16.