WAY Copy link • WAYPROP., via (the proper word): iter (road): cursus (course): orbita: meatus (track) [Vid: also, PATH, ROAD.] To be or stand in one’s way, impedimento esse alicui (Terentianus); obstare, officere alicui; impedire, morari aliquem: to get out of one’s way, de via decedere alicui; decedere alicui (to make room for); congressum alicujus vitare, fugere (after Cic.; to shun): out of the way, avius (that lies out of the way): devius (that leads out of the way): invius (through which there is no way): out of the way = remote, remotus: disjunctus (lonely, solitary): reconditus: abditus (hidden or concealed): longinquus (lying far off): an out-of-the-way place, longinquus et reconditus locus: latebra (a hiding place): to be out of the way, longe or satis magno intervallo remotum esse: out of the way, apage te; move te hinc: a thing is on its way, res adventat, imminet, instat: a place where two, three, four ways meet, bivium, trivium, quadrivium: not to know the way, viam nescire, non nosse: imperitum esse viae, itineris: to be on the way, in via, in itinere esse: to go out of the way, de via, ex itinere, excedere (Caes.); a via recedere (Liv.); de via declinare, deflectere (Cic.); via degredi (Liv.): to show anybody the way, viam alicui monstrare (Cic.); semitam monstrare alicui (Plaut.); ducem esse alicui viae, itineris (after Caes.): which way shall I take? quam viam insistam? (Ter., Eun., 2, 3, 2): quam viam ingrediare, ineam? (Cic.): you are in the right way, rectam instas viam: rectam viam ingressus es (Plaut.): it is a roundabout way, via habet longiorem anfractum (Nep.): the way to India, via quae hinc est in Indiam. Right of way, iter (right of going any where, or passing through): actus (right of driving cattle through; both Cic., Caecin., 26, 75). To take out of the way, tollere: de medio tollere. To turn out of the way, a directo itinere avertere aliquem: deducere aliquem a (recta) via: depellere aliquem a via (by force). By the way (i. e., in passing), in transitu: transiens: praeteriens (of these expressions, the first and second are post-Augustan in this sense; but we find quasi praeteriens in Cic.): strictim (superficially, slightly; for which we find obiter in the time of Sen.); per occasionem: occasione data or oblata (taking this opportunity). Figuratively. Course, via (e.g., virtutis, vitae). Manners or means (of obtaining anything), via: iter: aditus; (of doing anything), ratio (subjective); modus (objective): if you go on in this way, si ad istud modum pergas: not to be able to find one’s way out of a thing, (figuratively) emergi ex aliqua re non posse. Counsel, plan, method of proceeding, via: consilium: institutum. Custom, mos: consuetudo.