(adj.adv.) : văgus, a, um, adj.root vagh-; Sanscr. vāhas; Gr. ὄχος, wagon; cf. veho
* Strolling about, rambling, roving, roaming, wandering,unfixed, unsettled, vagrant (freq. and class.; syn. errabundus).
* Lit.: cum vagus et exsul erraret,Cic. Clu. 62, 175: itaque vagus esse cogitabam,id. Att. 7, 11, 5: dum existimabam vagos nos fore,id. ib. 7, 26, 3: Gaetuli vagi, palantes,Sall. J. 18, 2; cf. id. ib. 19, 5: multitudo dispersa atque vaga,Cic. Rep. 1, 25, 40 (from Aug. Ep. 138, 10): quae circum vicinos vaga es,Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 14: navita,Tib. 1, 3, 39: mercator,Hor. A. P. 117: Hercules,id. C. 3, 3, 9: scurra,id. Ep. 1, 15, 28: tibicen,id. A. P. 215: pecus,id. C. 3, 13, 12: aves,id. ib. 4, 4, 2: cornix,id. ib. 3, 27, 16: pisces,id. S. 2, 4, 77: vagi per silvas ritu ferarum,Quint. 8, 3, 81; cf. also: saepe vagos extra limina ferte pedes,Ov. A. A. 3, 418: refringit virgulta pede vago,Cat. 63, 84: ne bestiae quidem ... facile patiuntur sese contineri motusque solutos et vagos a naturā sibi tributos requirunt,unrestrained,Cic. Fin. 5, 20, 56: peregrinationes,Sen. Tranq. 2, 13: errores,Ov. M. 4, 502: gressus,Mart. 2, 57, 1.—Of inanim. things: quae (sidera) autem vaga et mutabili erratione labuntur,Cic. Univ. 10; cf.: quae (stellae) errantes et quasi vagae nominarentur,id. Rep. 1, 14, 22: Aurorā exoriente vagi sub limina Solis,Cat. 64, 271: luna,Hor. S. 1, 8, 21: aequora,Tib. 2, 6, 3: flumina,Hor. C. 1, 34, 9: Tiberis,id. ib. 1, 2, 18: venti,id. ib. 3, 29, 24: fulmina,Ov. M. 1, 596: flamma,Hor. S. 1, 5, 73: crines,Ov. M. 2, 673: harena,flying, light,Hor. C. 1, 28, 23: domus (Scytharum),id. ib. 3, 24, 10: lumina noctis,Stat. Th. 3, 63: febres,sporadic,Cels. 3, 5: fel toto corpore,diffusing itself,Plin. 11, 37, 75, § 193.
* Trop., wandering, wavering, unsteady, inconstant, doubtful, uncertain, vague: (in oratione) solutum quiddam sit nec vagum tamen,capricious,Cic. Or. 23, 77: genus orationum,id. Brut. 31, 119; cf.: pars quaestionum vaga et libera et late patens,indefinite, vague,id. de Or. 2, 16, 67: nomen Ambrosiae et circa alias herbas fluctuatum,Plin. 27, 4, 11, § 28: de dis immortalibus habere non errantem et vagam, sed stabilem certamque sententiam,Cic. N. D. 2, 1, 2: vaga volubilisque fortuna,id. Mil. 26, 69: vaga popularisque supplicatio, irregular, i. e. celebrated as men chanced to meet, without legal appointment, Liv. 3, 63, 5: incertum diu et quasi vagum imperium,Suet. Vesp. 1: vagus adhuc Domitius,i. e. vacillating between the parties,Vell. 2, 76, 2: puellae,inconstant in love,Prop. 1, 5, 7: vagae moderator juventae,flighty, giddy,Mart. 2, 90, 1; Stat. S. 4, 6, 2: concubitu prohibere vago,i. e. promiscuous,Hor. A. P. 398; so Col. 12, 1, 2; Mart. 6, 21, 6.—Poet., with gen.: vagus animi,wandering in mind,Cat. 63, 4.—adv.: văgē, here and there, far and wide, dispersedly: vage effusi per agros palatique, etc.,Liv. 26, 39, 22: res sparsae et vage disjectae,Auct. Her. 4, 2, 3: dispergere,id. ib. 4, 31, 42: dicere,Sen. Q. N. 2, 48, 2.