vestigo

vestīgō āre, —, —

cf. στίχος, to follow in the track of, track, trace out, track up, hunt, search, scour : vestigare et quaerere te, Enn. ap. C.: perfugas et fugitivos, L.: adeo sicca lacuna, ut vestigantium sitim falleret, Cu.: vestiga (sc. ramum) oculis, V.—Fig., to inquire into, investigate, trace, search out : causas rerum: nihil inexploratum, quod vestigari volunt, efficere, L.: voluptates omnīs: regionem omni curā, Cu.