(verb) : ambŭlo, āvi, ātum, 1, regarded by Doed. as a sort of dim. of ambio, but better regarded as comp. of am- and the root of βαίνω, beto, -bito, baculum = βάκπρον, vado, venio; Sanscr. gā = go; Germ. gehen; Engl. go. Curtius.
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* In gen., to go about, to walk: cum illā neque cubat neque ambulat,Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 56: si non ubi sedeas locus est, est ubi ambules,id. Capt. prol. 12: quem ad modum quis ambulet, sedeat,Cic. Fin. 5, 17, 47: sedetur, ambulatur,Varr. L. L. 6, 1, p. 72 Müll.: ambulatum est,Cic. Leg. 2, 1, 1; Sen. Ep. 113, 15: cum sedeatur, ambuletur, discumbatur,Gell. 2, 2: standi ambulandi vices,Quint. 11, 3, 44: ambulans aut jacens,Plin. Ep. 9, 36; Gell. 2, 9: cum ambulantis Tiberii genua advolveretur,Tac. A. 1, 13: aves aliquae ambulant, ut cornices; aliae saliunt, ut passeres,walk,Plin. 10, 38, 54, § 111: Aegyptii mures bipedes ambulant,id. 10, 64, 85, § 186: claudi ambulant,Vulg. Matt. 11, 5; ib. Joan. 1, 36; ib. Apoc. 2, 1; 9, 20.—Hence
* Act., esp. with cognate objects, as iter, via, etc., to navigate, sail, pass over, etc.: cum Xerxes tantis classibus tantisque copiis maria ambulavisset terramque navigāsset,Cic. Fin. 2, 34: perpetuas ambulat illa vias,Ov. F. 1, 122 (cf.: ire iter, viam, etc., Burm. ad Prop. 2, 19, 50).— Pass.: si bina stadia ambulentur,Plin. 23, 1, 16, § 26.
* In milit. lang. t. t., to march: ut ter in mense tam equites quam pedites educantur ambulatum,Veg. Mil. 1, 27.
* In the jurists in opp. to ire: iter est jus eundi ambulandi hominis,of one going and coming,Dig. 3, 8, 1.
* Trop. very freq. in eccl. Lat. (like Heb. and N. T. Gr. περιπατέω), to walk, in the sense of to live, with an adjunct of manner or circumstances: ambulavit Henoch cum Deo,Vulg. Gen. 5, 22: ut ambules in viis ejus (Dei),ib. Deut. 10, 12: qui ambulant in lege Domini,ib. Psa. 118, 1: in circuitu impii ambulant,ib. ib. 11, 9: fraudulenter ambulare, ib. Prov. 11, 13.—So also very freq. in N. T., but only once in this sense in the Gospels: quare discipuli tui non ambulant juxta traditionem seniorum?Vulg. Marc. 7, 5: qui non secundum carnem ambulant,ib. Rom. 8, 1: in carne ambulantes,ib. 2 Cor. 10, 3: honeste ambulare,ib. Rom. 13, 13: ut ambuletis digne Deo,ib. Col. 1, 10: quod non recte ambularent,ib. Gal. 2, 14 et persaepe.

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