foot-step Copy link • foot-step: vestīgium: no f.s on the way back, nulla v. retrorsum, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 75: Cic. Fig.: to tread in a father's f.s, [a pueritia] vestigiis ingredi patris, Cic. Rep. 6, 24.
FOOT-STEP Copy link • FOOT-STEPvestigium. To follow anybody’s footsteps., vestigiis alicujus instare; aliquem vestigiis sequi (poetically, vestigia alicujus legere): (IMPROP.) vestigiis alicujus ingredi; vestigia alicujus premere (i. e., to follow his example); vestigia alicujus implere, persequi; aliquem ipsius vestigiis persequi (to follow them exactly).