I.a footstep, step; footprint, foot-track, track.
I. Lit.: “currentium pes vestigium facit,” Quint. 9, 4, 67: “hac socci video vestigium in pulvere,” Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 29: “hominis,” Plin. 8, 4, 5, § 9: “in foro vestigium facere,” i. e. to set foot in the market, Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 48: “ponere vestigia,” id. Phil. 3, 12, 31: “facere vestigium in possessione,” id. Caecin. 14, 39: “vestigiis persequi aliquem,” id. Brut. 90, 307: “vestigiis sequi hostem,” Liv. 9, 45, 16: eodem remanere vestigio, to stay in the same spot or place, Caes. B. G. 4, 2: “negans e republicā esse, vestigium abscedi ab Hannibale,” the distance of a step, Liv. 27, 4, 1: “deus ille, quem mente noscimus, atque in animi notione tamquam in vestigio volumus reponere,” Cic. N. D. 1, 14, 37.—
B. Transf.
1. The part of the foot which makes a print, the sole of the foot: qui adversis vestigiis stent contra nostra vestigia, quos ἀντίποδας vocatis, Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123; Cat. 64, 162; Verg. A. 5, 566.—
2. A horseshoe: “vestigium equi excussum ungulā,” Plin. 28, 20, 81, § 263.—
3. In gen., a trace, mark, sign, token, vestige: “praesertim cum in lectulo decumanae mulieris vestigia viderent recentia,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 34, § 79; id. de Or. 3, 2, 6; Caes. B. G. 6, 27: “in vestigiis hujus urbis,” ruins, Cic. Cat. 4, 6, 12: “semiruta murorum vestigia,” Amm. 24, 2, 6.—
II. Trop., of manners, cha racter, etc., a footprint, trace: “a pueritiā vestigiis ingressus patriis et tuis,” Cic. Rep. 6, 24, 26: “amoris vestigia,” Quint. 11, 1, 59: “imprimi quaedam vestigia animo,” id. 11, 2, 4: “patris patruique vestigia premere,” Tac. A. 2, 14 fin.—
B. Transf., of time, a point, moment, instant: “eodem et loci vestigio et temporis,” Cic. Pis. 9, 21: “in illo vestigio temporis,” Caes. B. G. 7, 25: “vestigio temporis,” at the moment, instantly, forthwith, id. B. C. 2, 26: “ut urbs ab hostibus capta eodem vestigio videretur,” at that very moment, id. ib. 2, 7.—
b. A dverb.: e (ex) vestigio, instantly, forthwith: “repente e vestigio ex homine tamquam aliquo Circaeo poculo factus est Verres,” Cic. Div. in Caecil. 17, 57; Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 2; Caes. B. C. 2, 25 fin.
