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* V. dep. n. [Sanscr. kra-, kram, to go; Goth. skrei-tan; Germ. schreiten, Schritt], to take steps, to step, walk, go (rare but class.; cf.: eo, grassor, incedo, vado, pergo, etc.): jam vero alia animalia gradiendo, alia serpendo ad pastum accedunt, alia volando, alia nando, etc.,Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122; cf.: quasdam (bestias) esse gradientes,id. Tusc. 5, 13, 38: si graderere tantum, quantum loquere, jam esses ad forum,Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 138: si maledicetis, vostro gradiar limite,id. Poen. 3, 3, 19: inde auctumnus adit, graditur simul Euhius Euan,Lucr. 5, 743: longe gradientem et dira frementem Ut videre,Verg. A. 10, 572; cf.: gradiens ingenti passu,Ov. M. 13, 776: induiturque aures lente gradientis aselli,id. ib. 11, 179: si quo hic gradietur, pariter progrediminor,Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 70: fidenti animo gradietur ad mortem,Cic. Tusc. 1, 46, 110: pariter gressi per opaca viarum,Verg. A. 6, 633; cf. Ov. M. 2, 80.
* With a homogeneous object: uterque sexus (mulus et mula) viam recte graditur,Col. 6, 37, 11.
* Poet. transf., of inanim. and abstr. things: ut nubes paulatim repit et omne qua graditur conturbat,Lucr. 6, 1122: radit vox fauces saepe, facitque asperiora foras gradiens arteria clamor (corresp. to ire foras primordia vocum),id. 4, 529.
* Trop., of the conduct of life, to walk, live, conduct one's self (eccl. Lat.): cum sapientibus,Vulg. Prov. 13, 20: in superbia,id. Dan. 4, 34 al

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