1. vigilia — de Vaan
vigilia 'the act of keeping watch, patrol' (P1.+), vigilium 'the action of keeping watch' (Varro), vigilare 'to stay awake' (P1.+); advigitdre 'to be on the watch* (P1.+), — [de Vaan, s.v. vigilia, p. 691]
The corpus record — Latin
vigilia
vigilia
the act of keeping watch, patrol
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Where it lives
- Thrasybulus 1 · 16.67/10k
- Didius Julianus 1 · 6.29/10k
- De Providentia 2 · 4.89/10k
- In L. Catilinam 5 · 3.98/10k
- Catilina 4 · 3.75/10k
- Pro Archia Poeta 1 · 3.21/10k
- Aulularia 2 · 2.9/10k
- De Tranquillitate Animi 2 · 2.65/10k
- Jugurtha 5 · 2.36/10k
- Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 1 · 2.32/10k
- De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
- Pro Fonteio 1 · 2.2/10k
Densest 12 of 50 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. vĭgĭlĭa — Lewis & Short
vĭgĭlĭa, ae, f. (
I neutr. collat. form vĭgĭ-lĭum, Varr. ap. Non. p. 232, 4) [vigil].
I Lit.
A In gen., wakefulness, sleeplessness, a lying awake:
ut neque vigilia praecesserit neque ventris resolutio,Cels. 2, 6:
corporum robora nocturnā vigiliā minuere,id. 1 init.:
cui non sunt auditae Demosthenis vigiliae?Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44; id. Par. prooem. § 5.—
B In partic.
1 Lit., a keeping awake for the security of a place, esp. of a city or camp, a watching, watch, guard (cf.:
excubiae, statio): noctu vigilias agere ad aedes sacras,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 93:
vestra tecta custodiis vigiliisque defendite,id. Cat. 2, 12, 26:
exercitus stationibus vigiliisque fessus,Liv. 5, 48, 6:
vigiles scutum in vigiliam ferre vetuit,to take on guard, id. 44, 33, 8:
vigiliarum nocturnarum curam per urbem magistratibus mandavimus,id. 39, 16, 12.—
b Transf.
(a) A watch, i. e. the time of keeping watch by night, among the Romans a fourth part of the night:
nox in quattuor vigilias dividitur, quae singulae trium horarum spatio supputantur,Hier. Ep. 140, 8:
primā vigiliā capite arma frequentes,Liv. 5, 44, 7; 10, 34, 13; 21, 27, 2:
cum puer tuus ad me secundā fere vigiliā venisset,Cic. Fam. 3, 7, 4:
de tertiā vigiliā,Caes. B. G. 1, 12:
tertiā vigiliā,id. ib. 2, 33; Liv. 9, 44, 10:
de quartā vigiliā,Caes. B. G. 1, 40.—
(b) The watch, i. e. those standing on guard, watchmen, sentinels:
milites disponit, non certis spatiis intermissis sed perpetuis vigiliis stationibusque,Caes. B. C. 1, 21; 2, 19; Cic. Mil. 25, 67; Sall. C. 32, 1; id. J. 45, 2; 100, 4; Liv. 39, 14, 10.—
2 A watching at religious festivals, nightly vigils:
Cereris vigiliae,Plaut. Aul. prol. 36; 4, 10, 65.—
II Trop., watchfulness, vigilance (the figure taken from military sentinels; perh. only in the foll. passages;
whereas vigilantia is far more freq.): ut vacuum metu populum Romanum nostrā vigiliā et prospicientiā redderemus,Cic. Phil. 7, 7, 19; cf.:
quasi in vigiliā quādam consulari ac senatoriā,id. ib. 1, 1, 1: cupio jam vigiliam meam, Brute, tibi tradere: sed ita, ut ne desim constantiae meae, my post, i. e. my office, duty, id. Fam. 11, 24, 1.—Plur.: cum summis vigiliis aliquid perficere, Just. Inst. prooem. § 1.
Where it came from
- Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. vigilia (scan p. 691; entry #1986).
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