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vigeo

to be active, flourish

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Where it lives

Versus Paschales Pro Augusto Dicti 1 · 51.55/10k
Technopaegnion 3 · 20.2/10k
Parentalia 4 · 15.39/10k
Eclogarum Liber 2 · 7.3/10k
Helius 1 · 6.97/10k
Cathemerina 5 · 6.79/10k
Hamartigenia 4 · 6.26/10k
Psychomachia 3 · 5/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Pro M. Marcello 1 · 3.61/10k
Pro M. Scauro 1 · 3.37/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k

Densest 12 of 82 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. vigeo — de Vaan

vigeo 'to be active, flourish' [v. II; pf. vigui, no ppp. attested] (Naev.+) Derivatives: vigor 'vigour' (Caes.+), vigescere 'to acquire strength' (Lucr.+), vigil, -is [m.] 'guard, sentry' (P1.+) [gen.pl. vigilum], vigil\ -is 'awake, wakeful' (Lucr.+), — [de Vaan, s.v. vigeo, p. 691]

2. vĭgĕo — Lewis & Short

vĭgĕo, ēre, v. n.Sanscr. ugras, mighty; Gr. u(gih/s, sound; cf. Lat. vegeo, vigil, augeo,

I to be lively or vigorous; to thrive, flourish, bloom; to be in honor, esteem, repute, etc. (class.; mostly of things, concrete and abstract; cf. valeo).

I In gen.: quae a terrā stirpibus continentur, arte naturae vivunt et vigent, Cic. N. D. 2, 33, 83: quod sentit, quod sapit, quod vivit, quod viget, id. Tusc. 1, 27, 66: sive occiderit animus sive vigeat, id. ib. 1, 43, 104: vegetum ingenium in vivido pectore vigebat, Liv. 6, 22, 7: Volsci fessi ... Romani vigentes corporibus, id. 2, 30, 14: animus Laetitiā viget, Lucr. 3, 150: nos animo duntaxat vigemus, etiam magis quam cum florebamus, Cic. Att. 4, 3, 6: memoriā vigere, id. de Or. 2, 87, 355: viget aetas, animus valet, Sall. C. 20, 10: fama Mobilitate viget, Verg. A. 4, 175: nec viget quicquam simile aut secundum, Hor. C. 1, 12, 18: cujus facta viva nunc vigent, Naev. ap Gell. 6, 8, 5: vigebant studia rei militaris, Cic. Cael. 5, 12: audacia, largitio, avaritia vigebant, Sall. C. 3, 3: tui politici libri omnes vigent, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 1, 4: quem (Philonem) in Academiā maxime vigere audio, i. e. is in the highest repute or esteem, Cic. de Or. 3, 28, 110; so id. ib. 1, 11, 45; id. Fam. 7, 33, 1: Harmodius in ore et Aristogito ... viget, id. Tusc. 1, 49, 116: regum conciliis, Verg. A. 2, 88.—

II Of persons, to live, be alive: Persarum vigui rege beatior. Hor. C. 3, 9, 4; 3, 9, 8: ab tergo Alpes urgent, vix integris vobis ac vigentibus transitae, Liv. 21, 43, 4.

In the wild

viget Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.29
viget Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.3.15
viget Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 3.7.1
vigent Lucan, Pharsalia 4.600
viget Cicero, De Divinatione 1.115.p2
viget Ovid, Ex Ponto 3.8.22

6 of 199 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. vigeo (scan p. 691; entry #1985).

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