I.v. dep. n. [id.].
I. To take a walk, to walk about, promenade (class.; cf.: “ambulo, deambulo): cum resideret, deinde spatiaretur,” Cic. Rosc. Am. 21, 59: “in xysto,” id. Opt. Gen. 3, 8: “aggere in aprico,” Hor. S. 1, 8, 15: “Pompeiā in umbrā (i. e. porticu),” Prop. 4 (5), 8, 75. “Pompeiā sub umbrā,” Ov. A. A. 1, 67: “in porticibus,” Petr. 90: “summā harenā,” Ov. M. 2, 573 et saep.—
II. In gen., to walk about or along, to go, proceed, = incedere (poet. and in postAug. prose): “(Dido) ante ora deum pingues spatiatur ad aras,” Verg. A. 4, 62: “lato arvo,” Ov. M. 4, 87; cf. id. ib. 11, 64; Quint. 11, 3, 131; cf. id. 11, 3, 135: “cornix sola in siccā secum spatiatur harena,” Verg. G. 1, 389: “pompa spatietur,” will move along, Prop. 2, 13, 19 (3, 5, 3): “lato spatiata campo,” Sil. 4, 71.—
B. Transf., of things, to spread out, expand: “spatiantia passim Bracchia compescit,” Ov. M. 14, 629: “spatiantes alae,” his spreading wings, id. ib. 4, 364: “radices in summā tellure spatiantur,” Plin. 17, 10, 12, § 65: “intus, ut in metallis, spatiante venā,” id. 17, 8, 4, § 45: “morbum nosse, et vires ejus, antequam spatientur, opprimere,” Sen. Ira, 3, 10, 4.
