(v. n.P. a.adv.) : vĭgĭlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and
* A. [vigil].
* Neutr., to watch, i. e. to be or keep awake at night, not to sleep, be wakeful (class.; syn. excubo).
* 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.
* 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
* Trop.
* In gen., to be watchful, vigilant: vigilantes curae,Cic. Div. 1, 43, 96: oculi vigilantes,Verg. A. 5, 438.
* 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.
* 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.—*
* Vĭ-gĭlātē, adv., for vigilanter, watchfully, vigilantly, Gell. 3, 14, 12.