by-path Copy link Outline 1. dēvertĭcŭlum2. dēvĭum ĭter3. dēvĭa callis4. trāmes, ĭtis, m.5. sēmĭta (any narrow, less frequented path) • by-path, -road, or -way: 1. dēvertĭcŭlum: Cic.: Suet. 2. dēvĭum ĭter: Cic. 3. dēvĭa callis: Liv. 4. trāmes, ĭtis, m.: Cic.: Virg. 5. sēmĭta (any narrow, less frequented path): Cic.: Virg.
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).
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.