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|lshtext=<b>văgus</b>: a, um, adj. [[root]] vagh-; Sanscr. vāhas; Gr. [[ὄχος]]>, wagon; cf. [[veho]],<br /><b>I</b> [[strolling]] [[about]], [[rambling]], [[roving]], [[roaming]], [[wandering]], unfixed, [[unsettled]], [[vagrant]] (freq. and [[class]].; syn. [[errabundus]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: cum [[vagus]] et [[exsul]] erraret, Cic. Clu. 62, 175: [[itaque]] [[vagus]] esse cogitabam, id. Att. 7, 11, 5: dum existimabam vagos nos [[fore]], id. ib. 7, 26, 3: [[Gaetuli]] vagi, palantes, Sall. J. 18, 2; cf. id. ib. 19, 5: [[multitudo]] dispersa [[atque]] vaga, Cic. Rep. 1, 25, 40 (from Aug. Ep. 138, 10): quae [[circum]] vicinos vaga es, Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 14: [[navita]], Tib. 1, 3, 39: [[mercator]], Hor. A. P. 117: [[Hercules]], id. C. 3, 3, 9: [[scurra]], id. Ep. 1, 15, 28: [[tibicen]], id. A. P. 215: [[pecus]], id. C. 3, 13, 12: aves, id. ib. 4, 4, 2: [[cornix]], id. ib. 3, 27, 16: pisces, id. S. 2, 4, 77: vagi per silvas ritu ferarum, Quint. 8, 3, 81; cf. also: [[saepe]] vagos [[extra]] limina ferte [[pedes]], Ov. A. A. 3, 418: refringit virgulta pede [[vago]], Cat. 63, 84: ne bestiae [[quidem]] ... [[facile]] patiuntur [[sese]] contineri motusque solutos et vagos a naturā sibi tributos requirunt, [[unrestrained]], Cic. Fin. 5, 20, 56: peregrinationes, Sen. Tranq. 2, 13: errores, Ov. M. 4, 502: [[gressus]], Mart. 2, 57, 1.—Of inanim. things: quae (sidera) [[autem]] vaga et mutabili erratione labuntur, Cic. Univ. 10; cf.: quae (stellae) errantes et [[quasi]] vagae nominarentur, id. Rep. 1, 14, 22: Aurorā exoriente vagi sub limina Solis, Cat. 64, 271: [[luna]], Hor. S. 1, 8, 21: aequora, Tib. 2, 6, 3: flumina, Hor. C. 1, 34, 9: [[Tiberis]], id. ib. 1, 2, 18: venti, id. ib. 3, 29, 24: fulmina, Ov. M. 1, 596: [[flamma]], Hor. S. 1, 5, 73: crines, Ov. M. 2, 673: [[harena]], [[flying]], [[light]], Hor. C. 1, 28, 23: [[domus]] (Scytharum), id. ib. 3, 24, 10: lumina noctis, Stat. Th. 3, 63: febres, [[sporadic]], Cels. 3, 5: fel toto corpore, diffusing itself, Plin. 11, 37, 75, § 193.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., [[wandering]], [[wavering]], [[unsteady]], [[inconstant]], [[doubtful]], [[uncertain]], [[vague]]: (in oratione) solutum quiddam [[sit]] nec vagum [[tamen]], [[capricious]], Cic. Or. 23, 77: [[genus]] orationum, id. Brut. 31, 119; cf.: [[pars]] quaestionum vaga et libera et [[late]] [[patens]], [[indefinite]], [[vague]], id. de Or. 2, 16, 67: [[nomen]] Ambrosiae et [[circa]] [[alias]] herbas fluctuatum, Plin. 27, 4, 11, § 28: de dis immortalibus habere non errantem et vagam, sed stabilem certamque sententiam, Cic. N. D. 2, 1, 2: vaga volubilisque [[fortuna]], id. Mil. 26, 69: vaga popularisque [[supplicatio]], [[irregular]], i. e. [[celebrated]] as men chanced to [[meet]], [[without]] [[legal]] [[appointment]], Liv. 3, 63, 5: [[incertum]] diu et [[quasi]] vagum [[imperium]], Suet. Vesp. 1: [[vagus]] [[adhuc]] [[Domitius]], i. e. [[vacillating]] [[between]] the parties, Vell. 2, 76, 2: puellae, [[inconstant]] in [[love]], Prop. 1, 5, 7: vagae [[moderator]] juventae, [[flighty]], [[giddy]], Mart. 2, 90, 1; Stat. S. 4, 6, 2: concubitu prohibere [[vago]], i. e. [[promiscuous]], Hor. A. P. 398; so Col. 12, 1, 2; Mart. 6, 21, 6.—Poet., [[with]] gen.: [[vagus]] animi, [[wandering]] in [[mind]], Cat. 63, 4.—adv.: văgē, here and [[there]], [[far]] and [[wide]], dispersedly: [[vage]] effusi per agros palatique, etc., Liv. 26, 39, 22: res sparsae et [[vage]] disjectae, Auct. Her. 4, 2, 3: dispergere, id. ib. 4, 31, 42: dicere, Sen. Q. N. 2, 48, 2.