path Copy link Outline I. A (narrow) trodden way1. sēmĭta (narrow way, footpath)2. trāmes, ĭtis (cross-road, by-path)3. callis, is, m.; less freq. f. (a foot-track; esp. such as are trodden on hill-sides)II. Route, course • path: I. A (narrow) trodden way: 1. sēmĭta (narrow way, footpath): very narrow p.s, angustissimae s., Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 96: all the known highways and foot-p.s, omnes notae viae s.que, Caes. B. G. 5, 19. Fig.: the path of an unobserved life, fallentis s. vitae, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 103: Juv. 2. trāmes, ĭtis (cross-road, by-path): Cic. Ph. 13, 9, 19: more precisely, transversus tr., Liv. 2, 39: a winding p. through a wood, convexus tr. silvae, Virg. Aen. 11, 515. 3. callis, is, m.; less freq. f. (a foot-track; esp. such as are trodden on hill-sides): to lead an army by winding p.s, per devias c. exercitum ducere, Liv. 22, 14, med.: cf. Cic. Sext. 5, 12 (Italiae calles et pastorum stabula): Virg. II. Route, course: vĭa, ĭter: v. road, way. See also passage (VI.). Plin. has, semita (spiritûs), to denote the path or passage pursued by the breath; and Claud., s. lunae, the moon's p., Laud. Stil. 2, 438.