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vĭcārĭus , a, um, adj. vicis,
I.that supplies the place of a person or thing, substituted, delegated, vicarious.
I. Adj.: “vicaria fides amicorum supponitur,” Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 111: “manus,” Quint. Decl. 6, 21: “corpus,” id. ib. 16, 7: “mors,” Hyg. Fab. 243; Quint. Decl. 9 fin.—
II. Substt.
A. vĭcārĭus , ii, m., a substitute, deputy, proxy, a locum tenens, vicegerent, vicar: “succedam ego vicarius tuo muneri,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 37, § 81; 2, 3, 38, § 86; id. Mur. 37, 80; id. Sull. 9, 26; id. Fam. 16, 22, 2; Liv. 29, 1, 8; Hor. C. 3, 24, 16; Dig. 26, 7, 39, § 16: “diligentiae meae,” Col. 11, 1, 5.—Esp., an adjutant or lieutenant to a military commander, Cod. Just. 12, 51, 9: “tribuni,” a vice - tribune, Treb. Pol. Trig. Tyr. 10, 4.—An under-servant, underslave kept by another slave, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 28; Hor. S. 2, 7, 79; Mart. 2, 18, 7; Dig. 9, 4, 19; 15, 1, 17; Inscr. Marin. Fratr. Arv. 687; cf. “of the vicarii of such vicarii,” ib. 775.—
B. vĭcārĭa , ae, f.
1. A female under-slave of another slave, Inscr. Fabr. 304, n. 297; Inscr. Murat. 972, 11.—
2. The post of deputy of the praefectus praetorio, Cod. Th. 6, 26, 4.—
3. A substitute: “se pro conjuge vicariam dare,” Sen. ad Helv. 19, 5.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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