passim — Lewis & Short
passim. adv.passus, from pando (lit.,
I 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;
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.