FOOTING Copy link • FOOTINGGround, solum (e.g., ground to stand on) [Vid: also, GROUND]. The firm planting of the foot, or power of planting it firmly. To get a firm footing, firmiter insistere: firmo gradu consistere (PROP.): consistere (IMPROP.): I can’t get a firm footing, gradus instabilis me fallit; vestigium fallit (PROP., I am slipping); sistere non possum (IMPROP., Vid: Benecke, Justin., 11, 1, 6): there is no getting a firm footing, aliquid vestigium fallit or non recipit: those that could not get a firm footing, ii, quos gradus instabilis fefellit (Curt., 7, 11, 6): (a place) where one cannot get a firm footing, lubricus. Condition, state, settlement, modus (the measure, as it were, according to which or by which anything is to be done): ratio (method of proceeding): mos (custom). To place anything on a fixed footing, *certum alicujus rei modum constituere: to place (anything) on the old footing, in pristinum restituere; ad antiquum morem revocare: to restore anybody to his old footing (of intimacy) with anybody, aliquem restituere in alicujus veterem gratiam; restituere aliquem alicui: to place a province on the same footing as the rest, provinciam in eandem conditionem, quam ceteras, vocare: to live with anybody on an equal footing, ex pari or ex aequo vivere cum aliquo: to be on a very intimate footing with anybody, familiariter uti aliquo; familiaritatem habere cum aliquo.