passim . adv. [passus, from pando] (lit., spread or scattered about; hence), at or to different places, hither and thither, in every direction, at random.
I Lit. (class.): ille iit passim, ego ordinatim, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 2: sive pilatim sive passim iter facere volebat, Asellio ap. Serv. Verg. A. 12, 121: Numidae quādam barbarā consuetudine nullis ordinibus passim consederant, Caes. B. C. 2, 38: Tyrii comites passim ... diversa per agros Tecta metu petiere, Verg. A. 4, 162: plurima perque vias sternuntur inertia passim Corpora, id. ib. 2, 364; 3, 510: volucres passim ac libere solutas opere volitare, Cic. de Or. 2, 6, 23; cf.: volucres huc et illuc passim vagantes, id. Div. 2, 38, 80: passim per forum volitat, id. Rosc. Am. 46, 135; id. Sull. 15, 42: passim carpere, colligere undique, id. de Or. 1, 42, 91: sparsi enim toto passim campo se diffuderunt, Liv. 40, 33, 7; Liv. 41, 3, 7: quin etiam passim nostris in versibus ipsis Multa elementa vides, etc., Lucr. 1, 823; 2, 688; 6, 29.—
II Transf.
A Far and wide , everywhere , nearly = ubique (not ante-Aug.): passim omnes clamoribus agunt, Liv. 2, 45, 11: pabula et ligna nec pauci petebant, nec passim, id. 22, 12, 8: non tamen haec. quia possunt bene aliquando fieri, passim facienda sunt, Quint. 4, 1, 70; 6, 3, 4; 12, 10, 13: passim et in quācumque parte nascuntur qui furunculi vocantur, Plin. 26, 12, 77, § 125.—
B Without order , promiscuously , indiscriminately : scribimus indocti doctique poëmata passim, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 117: veteres passim semper amarunt, Tib. 2, 3, 69 Dissen.: ut Saturnalibus exaequato omnium jure passim in conviviis servi cum dominis recumbant. Just. 43, 1, 4: hunc puto effudisse hoc passim, without discrimination , heedlessly , Lact. 3, 9, 5: atomi passim cohaerentes, without a plan , at random , id. de Ira, 10, 27.