grope Copy link • grope: praetento, 1 (to feel before one): deprived of sight, he g.d for his road with a staff, praetentabat baculo, luminis orbus, iter, Ov. Ib. 258: Tib.: v. to feel (I.). Phr.: with one hand she g.s about for her dark way, alterâ (manu) motu caecum iter explorat, Ov. Met. 10, 455: Tib.: he carefully g.s his way with his hands, praefert cautas subsequiturque manus, Ov. F. 2, 336. Fig.: to g. at noonday, caligare in sole, Quint. 1, 2, 19: to roam and g. about for the path of life, viam palantes quaerere vitae, Lucr. 2, 10.