way Copy link Outline 1. via (the most gen. Latin word; road, journey, manner; corresponding widely to the English uses of way)2. ĭter, ĭtĭnĕris, n. (journey, road, manner, this last use rare in prose)3. cursus, ūs (course)4. mŏdus (manner)5. rătio (plan, system, method; the most extensive equivalent for the English way in significations of this kind)6. mōs, mōris, m. (use, wont) • way: 1. via (the most gen. Latin word; road, journey, manner; corresponding widely to the English uses of way): I was going along the sacred w., ibam via sacra, Hor. Sat. 1, 9, 1: Appius made a paved w. (a raised Roman road), Appius viam munivit, Liv. 9, 29: a dusty w., pulverulenta via, Cic. Att. 5, 14, 1: I turned out of the w. to the right, ad dextram de via declinavi, id. Fin. 5, 2, 5: to shew the w., monstrare v., Juv. 14, 103: two w.s led to Luceria, duae ad Luceriam ferebant v., Liv. 9, 2: he takes his w., it v., Virg. Aen. 6, 122: take your w., carpe v., ib. 629: to enter on a w., insistere v., Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 2: I have a certain w. (manner) and plan, habeo certam v. ac rationem, Cic. Verr. Act. 1, 16, 48: w.s not so much of justice as of litigation, non tam justitiae quam litigandi viae, id. Leg. 1, 6, 18. 2. ĭter, ĭtĭnĕris, n. (journey, road, manner, this last use rare in prose): I will tell you on the w., dicam in itinere, Ter. Ph. 3, 3, 33: whither does your w. lie? quo iter est tibi? Hor. S. 1, 9, 16: they thought they must hasten their w., maturandum iter existimabant, Caes. B. C. 1, 63: there were two w.s by which they could leave home, erant duo itinera quibus domo exire possent, Caes. B. G. 1, 6: we must open a w. by our swords, ferro i. aperiendum est, Sall. C. 58: the w. (path) of my duty, i. officii mei, Cic. Att. 4, 2, 1: fortune points out the w. of safety, fortuna salutis monstrat i., Virg. Aen. 2, 387. 3. cursus, ūs (course): to hold on one's w. with a most favourable wind, secundissimo vento cursum tenere, Cic. N. D. 3, 34, 83. 4. mŏdus (manner): they are not always treated in the same way, non semper tractantur uno modo, Cic. Or. 35: in every w., omnibus modis, Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 79: in this w., ad hunc modum, Caes. B. G. 5, 24: in a wonderful w., mirum in m., Caes. B. G. 1, 41. 5. rătio (plan, system, method; the most extensive equivalent for the English way in significations of this kind): the same w. and line of defence, eadem ratio viaque defensionis, Cic. Verr. 5, 1, 4: there is no w. of resisting, ratio nulla est restandi, Lucr. 1, 111: new w.s of warring, novae bellandi rationes, Caes. B. G. 3, 50. 6. mōs, mōris, m. (use, wont): as is my w., ut meus est mos, Hor. S. 1, 9, 1: the w. and custom of the state, mos consuetudoque civilis, Cic. Off. 1, 41., 148. Phr.: by the w.: obiter: he will read by the w., obiter leget, Juv. 3, 241: used by Pliny for incidentally, not by Cicero, who uses quasi praeteriens (Div. in Caecil. 15, 50), or strictim: I began to reflect by the w., coepi mecum inter vias cogitare, Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 1: in the w.: obvius: he put himself in my w., se mihi obvium dedit: who puts himself in my w., qui obviam obsistit mihi, Pl. Am. 3, 4, 2: to be in the w. (hinder), obesse, obstare, impedire, impedimento esse: out of the w.: dēvius (off the high-road): an out of the w. path, devium iter, Cic.: āvius (lonesome, pathless), Lucr.: Liv.: Virg.: longinquus, remotus: v. distant: out of the w. and abstruse matters, reconditae abstrusaeque res, Cic. Brut. 11, 44: out of the common w., extra ordinem, Cic.: to be out of the w. (absent, not at hand): abesse, non praesto esse: longe abesse (far away): get out of the way, abi, apage, Pl.: go your w., i, abi: Pl.: Ter.: come this w., concede huc: Pl.: Ter.: a long w. off, distans, longinquus: to be a long w. off, longe abesse, distare: he met him half-way, ad medium viae obvius fuit, Liv. 33, 1: to make w., progredi (to progress): proficere (to prosper): to make w. (yield), cedere, decedere: to give w., cedere (yield); labare, nutare (to give w. from weakness): to have one's own w., *res pro arbitrio gerere, vincere: 'tis hard fighting with one who will have his w., contendere durum est cum victore, Hor. S. 1, 9, 42: have it your own w., *esto ut lubet: vincas sino: to go out of one's w. to do, sine causa (ultro) facere: a right of w., iter, actus, Cic. Caec. 26, 74: w.s and means, reditus, opes, pecuniae: v. revenue, resources: w. of a ship, impetus: one hand steers a ship however much w. she may have on, navem manus una regit quantovis impete euntem, Lucr. 4, 904: to get under w., ab ancora solvi, ancoram solvere, tollere (to weigh anchor).