6. Walking—Footsteps—Direction

_gradum facere_—to take a step.

_gradum addere_ (sc. _gradui_) (Liv. 26. 9)—to increase one's pace.

_suspenso gradu_—on tiptoe.

_gradum sensim referre_—to retreat step by step.

_vestigia alicuius sequi, persequi_ or _vestigiis aliquem sequi,

persequi_—to follow in any one's steps.

_vestigiis alicuius insistere, ingredi_ (also metaph.)—to follow in

any one's steps.

_loco_ or _vestigio se non movere_—not to stir from one's place.

_recta (regione, via); in directum_—in a straight line.

_in obliquum_—in an oblique direction; sideways.

_obliquo monte decurrere_—to run obliquely down the hill.

_in contrarium; in contrarias partes_—in an opposite direction.

_in transversum, e transverso_—across; transversely.

_quoquo versus; in omnes partes_—in all directions.

_in diversas partes_ or simply _diversi abeunt, discedunt_—they

disperse in different directions.

_huc (et) illuc_—hither and thither.

_ultro citroque_—on this side and on that; to and fro.

_longe lateque, passim_ (e.g. _fluere_)—far and wide; on all sides;

everywhere.

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