via

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

via ae (old viāī, Enn. ap. C.), f

VAG-, a way, highway, road, path, street : Roma, non optimis viis: ire in viā, T.: omnibus viis notis essedarios emittebat, Cs.: via, quā Assoro itur Hennam: viā ire, by the highway , L.: tres ergo viae, a supero mari Flaminia, ab infero Aurelia, media Cassia: Via Sacra, H.: castra angustiis viarum contrahit, etc., i. e. of the passages (between the tents), Cs.—Prov.: qui sibi semitam non sapiunt alteri monstrant viam, Enn. ap. C.: totā errare viā, T.— A way, passage, channel, pipe, entrance : omnes eius (sanguinis) viae, i. e. veins : a medio intestino usque ad portas iecoris ductae viae, ducts : Spirandi viae, the windpipe , O.: Finditur in solidum cuneis via, a cleft , V.: harundo Signavit viam flammis, its path , V.— A way, march, journey : in viam se dare: tridui, a three days' journey , Cs.: longitudo viae, L.: Flecte viam velis, V.: lassus maris et viarum, H.: inter vias, on the road , T.—Fig., a way, method, mode, manner, fashion, course : ut rectā viā rem narret, i. e. directly , T.: vitae via conversa, H.: rectam vitae viam sequi: haec una via omnibus ad salutem visa est, L.: gloriae: (di) non . . . nullas dant vias nobis ad significationum scientiam.—Abl, by the right way, in the proper manner, correctly, unerringly, properly : in omnibus quae ratione docentur et viā, primum, etc.: ipsus secum eam rem reputavit viā, T.: viā et arte dicere.

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