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Lewis Short
(adjective) : vīvĭdus, a, um, vivo
* Containing life, living, animated (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf. Fest. p. 376 Müll.).
* In gen. (very rare): tellus,Lucr. 1, 178.
* Transf., of pictorial representations, true to the life, animated, spirited, vivid: signa,Prop. 2, 31 (3, 29), 8: cera,Mart. 7, 44, 2: imago,Claud. B. Get. 468 (cf.: vivi de marmore vultus,Verg. A. 6, 848).—Far more freq.
* Pregn., full of life, lively, vigorous, vivid: corpus,Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 10: senectus,Tac. A. 6, 27: Umber (canis),Verg. A. 12, 753: dextra bello,id. ib. 10, 609: vis animi,Lucr. 1, 72; so, animi,Plin. Pan. 44, 6: ingenium,Liv. 2, 48, 3: pectus,id. 6, 22, 7: bello vivida virtus,Verg. A. 5, 754: odia,Tac. A. 15, 49: eloquentia,id. ib. 13, 42: epigrammata,Mart. 11, 42, 1.— Comp.: merum,Mart. 8, 6, 12: spiritus,Val. Max. 5, 1, ext. 1.—Adv.: vīvĭdē, vigorously (acc. to II.); in comp., Gell. 7, 3, 53; Amm. 30, 1, 7.
* Containing life, living, animated (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf. Fest. p. 376 Müll.).
* In gen. (very rare): tellus,Lucr. 1, 178.
* Transf., of pictorial representations, true to the life, animated, spirited, vivid: signa,Prop. 2, 31 (3, 29), 8: cera,Mart. 7, 44, 2: imago,Claud. B. Get. 468 (cf.: vivi de marmore vultus,Verg. A. 6, 848).—Far more freq.
* Pregn., full of life, lively, vigorous, vivid: corpus,Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 10: senectus,Tac. A. 6, 27: Umber (canis),Verg. A. 12, 753: dextra bello,id. ib. 10, 609: vis animi,Lucr. 1, 72; so, animi,Plin. Pan. 44, 6: ingenium,Liv. 2, 48, 3: pectus,id. 6, 22, 7: bello vivida virtus,Verg. A. 5, 754: odia,Tac. A. 15, 49: eloquentia,id. ib. 13, 42: epigrammata,Mart. 11, 42, 1.— Comp.: merum,Mart. 8, 6, 12: spiritus,Val. Max. 5, 1, ext. 1.—Adv.: vīvĭdē, vigorously (acc. to II.); in comp., Gell. 7, 3, 53; Amm. 30, 1, 7.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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