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vĭcārĭa, ae, v. vicarius, II. B.

vĭcārĭus, a, um, adj. [vicis], that supplies the place of a person or thing, substituted, delegated, vicarious.

  1. I. Adj.: vicaria fides amicorum supponitur, Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 111: manus, Quint. Decl. 6, 21: corpus, id. ib. 16, 7: mors, Hyg. Fab. 243; Quint. Decl. 9 fin.
  2. II. Substt.
    1. A. vĭcārĭus, ii, m., a substitute, deputy, proxy, a locum tenens, vicegerent, vicar: succedam ego vicarius tuo muneri, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 37, § 81; 2, 3, 38, § 86; id. Mur. 37, 80; id. Sull. 9, 26; id. Fam. 16, 22, 2; Liv. 29, 1, 8; Hor. C. 3, 24, 16; Dig. 26, 7, 39, § 16: diligentiae meae, Col. 11, 1, 5.
      Esp., an adjutant or lieutenant to a military commander, Cod. Just. 12, 51, 9: tribuni, a vice-tribune, Treb. Pol. Trig. Tyr. 10, 4.
      An under-servant, underslave kept by another slave, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 28; Hor. S. 2, 7, 79; Mart. 2, 18, 7; Dig. 9, 4, 19; 15, 1, 17; Inscr. Marin. Fratr. Arv. 687; cf. of the vicarii of such vicarii, ib. 775.
    2. B. vĭcārĭa, ae, f.
      1. 1. A female under-slave of another slave, Inscr. Fabr. 304, n. 297; Inscr. Murat. 972, 11.
      2. 2. The post of deputy of the praefectus praetorio, Cod. Th. 6, 26, 4.
      3. 3. A substitute: se pro conjuge vicariam dare, Sen. ad Helv. 19, 5.