vestīgĭum (noun N) : id.
* A footstep, step; footprint, foot-track, track.
* 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.
* Transf.
* 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, 14fin.
* A horseshoe: vestigium equi excussum ungulā,Plin. 28, 20, 81, § 263.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.