vĭgĭlo — Lewis & Short
vĭgĭlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and
I a. [vigil].
I Neutr., to watch, i. e. to be or keep awake at night, not to sleep, be wakeful (class.; syn. excubo).
A Lit.:
ad multam noctem vigilare,Cic. Rep. 6, 10, 10:
de nocte,id. Q. Fr. 2, 15, 2:
proximā nocte,id. Cat. 3, 3, 6:
usque ad lucem,Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 46: ad ipsum Mane, Hor. S. 1, 3, 17.—With a homogeneous object: in lectitando ... vigilias vigilare, Gell. N. A. praef. § 19.—Impers.:
redeo si vigilatur et hic,Mart. 12, 68, 6.—Transf.:
vigilat Troicus ignis,burns continually, Stat. S. 1, 1, 35; so,
flamma,Flor. 1, 2, 3:
lumina (of a light-house),Ov. H. 18, 31.—Prov.
(a) Hic vigilans somniat, i. e. builds castles in the air, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 68; cf.:
num ille somniat Ea, quae vigilans voluit?Ter. And. 5, 6, 8.—
(b) Qui imperata effecta reddat, non qui vigilans dormiat, who dreams with his eyes open, goes to sleep over a thing, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 152; cf.:
et vigilans stertis,Lucr. 3, 1048:
vigilanti stertere naso,Juv. 1, 57.—Impers. pass.:
redeo, si vigilatur et hic,Mart. 12, 68, 6.—
B Trop.
1 In gen., to be watchful, vigilant:
vigilantes curae,Cic. Div. 1, 43, 96:
oculi vigilantes,Verg. A. 5, 438.—
2 In partic., to keep watch over any thing, to be watchful or vigilant: vigilandum est semper: multae insidiae sunt bonis, Att. ap. Cic. Planc. 24, 59 (Trag. Rel. p. 138 Rib.):
excubabo vigilaboque pro vobis,Cic. Phil. 6, 7, 18:
vigila, Chrysippe, ne tuam causam deseras,id. Fat. 6, 12:
ut vivas, vigila,Hor. S. 2, 3, 152:
studiis vigilare severis,to engage in, Prop. 2, 3, 7:
janitor ad dantes vigilet,id. 4 (5), 5, 47: Mars, vigila, an invocation to Mars at the breaking out of a war, acc. to Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 3.—
II Act., to watch through, spend in watching, to do or make while watching (poet.):
noctes vigilantur amarae,Ov. H. 12, 169; so,
vigilata nox,id. F. 4, 167:
ubi jam breviorque dies et mollior aetas, Quae vigilanda viris,Verg. G. 1, 313:
carmen vigilatum,Ov. F. 4, 109:
vigilati labores,id. Tr. 2, 11:
magia occulta noctibus vigilata,pursued by night, App. Mag. p. 304, 28.—Hence,
A vĭgĭlans, antis, P. a. (acc. to I. B. 2.), watchful, anxious, careful, vigilant:
vigilantes et boni et fortes et misericordes,Cic. Rosc. Am. 48, 139:
vigilans et acutus tribunus plebis,id. Agr. 1, 1, 3:
vigilans et industrius homo,id. Att. 8, 11, B, 1:
sentiet in hac urbe esse consules vigilantis,id. Cat. 2, 12, 27.—Comp.:
nemo paratior, vigilantior, compositior,Cic. Verr. 1, 11, 32.—Sup.:
dux (Hannibal),Val. Max. 9, 1, ext. 1.—Adv.: vĭgĭlanter, watchfully, carefully, vigilantly, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 64, § 144.—Comp.:
vigilantius,Cic. Rep. 6, 24, 26.—Sup.:
vigilantissime,Cic. Mur. 15, 32.—*
B vĭ-gĭlātē, adv., for vigilanter, watchfully, vigilantly, Gell. 3, 14, 12.