vagus — Logoi (Latin)

Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 3 · 11.48/10k
Phaedra 7 · 9.84/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 2 · 6.47/10k
Thyestes 4 · 6.35/10k
de bello Gildonico 2 · 6.32/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Epistularum 5 · 5.5/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 6 · 5.33/10k
de Bello Gothico 2 · 4.96/10k

Densest 12 of 122 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. vagus — de Vaan

vagus 'roaming, wandering' [adj. o/a\ (Naev.+) Derivatives: vagare/ϊ "to wander, roam' (P1.+) (act. until Varro), vagatrvc 'female wanderer' (Sis.). Pit. *wago-, PIE *Huog-o-? IE cognates: OIc. vakka, OHG wankon 'to totter, stagger', OHG — [de Vaan, s.v. vagus, p. 665]

2. văgus — Lewis & Short

văgus, a, um, adj.root vagh-; Sanscr. vāhas; Gr. o)/xos, wagon; cf. veho,

I strolling about, rambling, roving, roaming, wandering, unfixed, unsettled, vagrant (freq. and class.; syn. errabundus).

I Lit.: cum vagus et exsul erraret, Cic. Clu. 62, 175: itaque vagus esse cogitabam, id. Att. 7, 11, 5: dum existimabam vagos nos fore, id. ib. 7, 26, 3: Gaetuli vagi, palantes, Sall. J. 18, 2; cf. id. ib. 19, 5: multitudo dispersa atque vaga, Cic. Rep. 1, 25, 40 (from Aug. Ep. 138, 10): quae circum vicinos vaga es, Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 14: navita, Tib. 1, 3, 39: mercator, Hor. A. P. 117: Hercules, id. C. 3, 3, 9: scurra, id. Ep. 1, 15, 28: tibicen, id. A. P. 215: pecus, id. C. 3, 13, 12: aves, id. ib. 4, 4, 2: cornix, id. ib. 3, 27, 16: pisces, id. S. 2, 4, 77: vagi per silvas ritu ferarum, Quint. 8, 3, 81; cf. also: saepe vagos extra limina ferte pedes, Ov. A. A. 3, 418: refringit virgulta pede vago, Cat. 63, 84: ne bestiae quidem ... facile patiuntur sese contineri motusque solutos et vagos a naturā sibi tributos requirunt, unrestrained, Cic. Fin. 5, 20, 56: peregrinationes, Sen. Tranq. 2, 13: errores, Ov. M. 4, 502: gressus, Mart. 2, 57, 1.—Of inanim. things: quae (sidera) autem vaga et mutabili erratione labuntur, Cic. Univ. 10; cf.: quae (stellae) errantes et quasi vagae nominarentur, id. Rep. 1, 14, 22: Aurorā exoriente vagi sub limina Solis, Cat. 64, 271: luna, Hor. S. 1, 8, 21: aequora, Tib. 2, 6, 3: flumina, Hor. C. 1, 34, 9: Tiberis, id. ib. 1, 2, 18: venti, id. ib. 3, 29, 24: fulmina, Ov. M. 1, 596: flamma, Hor. S. 1, 5, 73: crines, Ov. M. 2, 673: harena, flying, light, Hor. C. 1, 28, 23: domus (Scytharum), id. ib. 3, 24, 10: lumina noctis, Stat. Th. 3, 63: febres, sporadic, Cels. 3, 5: fel toto corpore, diffusing itself, Plin. 11, 37, 75, § 193.—

II Trop., wandering, wavering, unsteady, inconstant, doubtful, uncertain, vague: (in oratione) solutum quiddam sit nec vagum tamen, capricious, Cic. Or. 23, 77: genus orationum, id. Brut. 31, 119; cf.: pars quaestionum vaga et libera et late patens, indefinite, vague, id. de Or. 2, 16, 67: nomen Ambrosiae et circa alias herbas fluctuatum, Plin. 27, 4, 11, § 28: de dis immortalibus habere non errantem et vagam, sed stabilem certamque sententiam, Cic. N. D. 2, 1, 2: vaga volubilisque fortuna, id. Mil. 26, 69: vaga popularisque supplicatio, irregular, i. e. celebrated as men chanced to meet, without legal appointment, Liv. 3, 63, 5: incertum diu et quasi vagum imperium, Suet. Vesp. 1: vagus adhuc Domitius, i. e. vacillating between the parties, Vell. 2, 76, 2: puellae, inconstant in love, Prop. 1, 5, 7: vagae moderator juventae, flighty, giddy, Mart. 2, 90, 1; Stat. S. 4, 6, 2: concubitu prohibere vago, i. e. promiscuous, Hor. A. P. 398; so Col. 12, 1, 2; Mart. 6, 21, 6.—Poet., with gen.: vagus animi, wandering in mind, Cat. 63, 4.—adv.: văgē, here and there, far and wide, dispersedly: vage effusi per agros palatique, etc., Liv. 26, 39, 22: res sparsae et vage disjectae, Auct. Her. 4, 2, 3: dispergere, id. ib. 4, 31, 42: dicere, Sen. Q. N. 2, 48, 2.

3. vagus — Walde–Hofmann

vagus, -a, -wm ,umherschweifend; unstet; ungebunden* (seit Naev. rom.) vagor, -ütus sum, -üri (-0, -üre) „schweife umher, breite mich aus“ (seit Enn. und Plt. (spátl. mit Akk. — per- Drac.]; daraus gr. Bayebw), eagabundus, -a, -wm seit Sol, vogax Hor. carm. 3,14, 19 nach Char. (Vollmer ALL. 15, 32), vagipennis Varro Men. 489 nach Buech., vagátrix seit Sisenna, vegätus, -üs m. seit Aug., vagátió f. seit Sen., vagätor … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. vagus, p. 1634]

In the wild

6 of 409 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. vagus (scan p. 665; entry #1908). Root candidates: *wago-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uagus (scan p. 735; entry #12283).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. vagus (scan pp. 1634-1635; entry #3140). Root candidates: *yag-, *uag-, *uöng-.