(adjective) : vĕgĕtus, a, um, vegeo
* Enlivened, lively, animated, vigorous, active, brisk, sprightly (class.; cf.: acer, alacer, valens).
* Lit.: te vegetum nobis in Graeciā siste,Cic. Att. 10, 16, 6: fessi cum recentibus ac vegetis pugnabant,Liv. 22, 47, 10: vegetus praescripta ad munia surgit,Hor. S. 2, 2, 81: nigris vegetisque oculis, valetudine prosperā,Suet. Caes. 45: vegetior ab inferis recurrit,App. M. 6, p. 181, 32.—Comp.: vegetior aspectus (tauri),Col. 6, 20.—Sup.: vegetissimus color conchyliorum,Plin. 21, 8, 22, § 46.
* Trop.: mens,Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 41: sed vegetum ingenium in vivido pectore vigebat,Liv. 6, 22, 7: tertia pars rationis et mentis,Cic. Div. 1, 29, 61: libertas,Sen. Hippol. 459: gustus,keen,Aus. Eph. Ord. Cog. 3.—Sup.: hoc intervallum temporis vegetissimum agricolis maximeque operosum est,the liveliest, busiest,Plin. 18, 26, 65, § 238.