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vestīgĭum, ii, n. [vestigo], a footstep, step; footprint, foot-track, track.

  1. 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.
    1. B. Transf.
      1. 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. 2. A horseshoe: vestigium equi excussum ungulā, Plin. 28, 20, 81, § 263.
      3. 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.
  2. 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.—
    1. 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.
        1. 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.