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|lshtext=<b>passim</b>: adv. [[passus]], from [[pando]] (lit.,<br /><b>I</b> [[spread]] or [[scattered]] [[about]]; [[hence]]), at or to [[different]] places, [[hither]] and [[thither]], in [[every]] [[direction]], at [[random]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit. ([[class]].): [[ille]] iit [[passim]], ego [[ordinatim]], Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 2: [[sive]] [[pilatim]] [[sive]] [[passim]] [[iter]] facere volebat, [[Asellio]] ap. Serv. Verg. A. 12, 121: Numidae quādam barbarā consuetudine nullis ordinibus [[passim]] consederant, Caes. B. C. 2, 38: Tyrii comites [[passim]] ... diversa per agros Tecta metu petiere, Verg. A. 4, 162: plurima perque vias sternuntur [[inertia]] [[passim]] Corpora, id. ib. 2, 364; 3, 510: volucres [[passim]] ac [[libere]] solutas opere volitare, Cic. de Or 2, 6, 23; cf.: volucres huc et [[illuc]] [[passim]] vagantes, id. Div. 2, 38, 80: [[passim]] per [[forum]] volitat, id. Rosc. Am. 46, 135; id. Sull. 15, 42: [[passim]] carpere, colligere [[undique]], id. de Or. 1, 42, 91: sparsi [[enim]] toto [[passim]] campo se diffuderunt, Liv 40, 33, 7; 41, 3, 7: [[quin]] [[etiam]] [[passim]] nostris in versibus ipsis Multa elementa vides, etc., Lucr. 1, 823; 2, 688; 6, 29.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Far and [[wide]], [[everywhere]], [[nearly]] = [[ubique]] (not [[ante]]-Aug.): [[passim]] omnes clamoribus agunt, Liv. 2, 45, 11: pabula et ligna nec [[pauci]] petebant, nec [[passim]], id. 22, 12, 8: non [[tamen]] haec. [[quia]] possunt [[bene]] [[aliquando]] fieri, [[passim]] facienda sunt, Quint. 4, 1, 70; 6, 3, 4; 12, 10, 13: [[passim]] et in quācumque parte nascuntur qui furunculi vocantur, Plin. 26, 12, 77, § 125.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Without [[order]], [[promiscuously]], [[indiscriminately]]: scribimus indocti doctique poëmata [[passim]], Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 117: veteres [[passim]] [[semper]] amarunt, Tib. 2, 3, 69 Dissen.: ut Saturnalibus exaequato omnium jure [[passim]] in conviviis servi cum dominis recumbant. Just. 43, 1, 4: hunc [[puto]] effudisse hoc [[passim]], [[without]] [[discrimination]], [[heedlessly]], Lact. 3, 9, 5: atomi [[passim]] cohaerentes, [[without]] a [[plan]], at [[random]], id. de Ira, 10, 27.
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{{Gaffiot
|gf=<b>passim</b>⁸ ([[pando]]),<br /><b>1</b> en se déployant en tous sens, à l’aventure, de tous côtés, partout, de toutes parts [avec idée de mouv<sup>t</sup>, question [[quo]] ] : Cæs. C. 2, 38, 5 ; Cic. de Or. 2, 23 ; Div. 2, 80 ; Amer. 135 ; [[Sulla]] 42 ; Pis. 90 ; [[passim]] carpere Cic. de Or. 1, 191, aller cueillir de tous côtés, prendre partout<br /><b>2</b> [sans mouv<sup>t</sup>] Liv. 2, 45, 11 ; Quint. 4, 1, 70 ; 12, 10, 13 || pêle-mêle, sans distinction, indistinctement : Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 117 ; Tib. 2, 3, 69.
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