The corpus record — Latin

vago

vago · v. n

to wander

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Precationes 1 · 21.6/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 2 · 15.42/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 3 · 9.71/10k
Mosella 3 · 9.23/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 7 · 8.29/10k
Cathemerina 6 · 8.15/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
In Rufinum 4 · 6.98/10k
In Eutropium 5 · 6.96/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Carmina 8 · 6.22/10k
Octavia 3 · 5.73/10k

Densest 12 of 144 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

văgo — Lewis & Short

văgo, āre, 1, v. n.,

I act. collat. form of vagor (ante-class.), to wander: te adloquor ... quae circum vicinos vagas, Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 14 Brix: exsul incerta vagat, Pac. ap. Non. 467, 25 (Trag. Rel. v. 225 Rib.): vagant matronae percitatae insaniā, Att. ap. Non. ib. (Trag. Rel. v. 236 ib.); cf. Varr., Turp., and Pompon. ib.

In the wild

vagantur Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.54
vagas Tacitus, Annales 2.p47
vagantes Ausonius, Epistularum 14.22
uagantibus Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 p39
vagandi Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 p28
vagabantur Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 28.2.11

6 of 476 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.