vigilante
Dictionary entries
- Entry →vigilo, vigilare, vigilavi, vigilatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
remain awake, be awake; watch; provide for, care for by watching, be vigilant;
abl. sg. pres. act. part. - Entry →vigilans, vigilantis (gen.), vigilantior -or -us, vigilantissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
watchful, vigilant, alert; wakeful, wide awake (of watchkeeper);
abl. sg. (all)
Examples
Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...quam Venus expergiscatur, prius deproperant sedulo sacruficare; nam vigilante Venere si veniant eae, ita sunt turpes, credo ecastor..."Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...divom mortalia saecla egregias animo facies vigilante videbant et magis in somnis mirando corporis auctu. his igitur sensum..."Liber IV
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...itaque illa dies eadem obversantur ante oculos, etiam vigilantes ut videantur cernere saltantis et mollia membra moventis..."Liber VI
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...quamquam occultaretur, pro comperto habebatur. Homullus deinde noster vigilanter usus hoc consensu senatus sententiae loco postulavit, ut consules..."
