Vigil

Latin-English

vĭg|il, -ĭlis. (ˈvi.dʒil) masc.

1. A watchman or sentinel; a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it. Also adj.

¶ The emperor Augustus set seven cohorts of vigiles to do duty as firemen.

[vigeo + -ilis. || The Anglicized form vigil is obsolete (the current sense of vigil continuing vigilia).]

Adjective constructions

• sopiti vigiles — sleeping guards

  Nico sopitos vigiles in cubilibus suis obtruncat § priusquam clamor oreretur vigiles, ut in nullo tali metu sopitos, impetus est facta § sopitis vigilibus ut in nullo propinquo metu § capite super marginem scuti posito sopitos stare —Livy, ab Urbe Condita

Noun constructions

• custodes, vigiles

  clamor a vigilibus fanique custodibus tollitur —Cicero, in Verrem

  imber ... custodes vigilesque dilapsos e stationibus subfugere in tecta coegit —Livy, ab Urbe Condita

  custodum transire manus vigilumque catervas militis et miseri semper amantis opus —Ovid, Amores

• vigiles canes — watchdogs [poet.]

  Danaën ... vigilum canum tristes excubiae munierant —Horace, Carmina

  iam vigiles conticuere canes § valeant vigiles provida turba canes —Ovid, Fasti

  dilaniet vigilum te quoque turba canum —Ovid, Ibis

• vigil cura [poet.]

  operataque doctis cura vigil Musis nomen inertis habet —Ovid, Ars Amatoria

  cumque animo et vigili perspexerat omnia cura § extenuant vigiles corpus miserabile curae —Ovid, Metamorphoses

• vigil custodia' [poet.]

  dumque vigil Phrygios servat custodia muros et vigil Argolicas servat custodia fossas —Ovid, Metamorphoses

• vigil flamma [poet.]

  illa potest vigiles flammas extinguere Vestae —Ovid, Ars Amatoria

  ut vigil infusa Pallade flamma solet —Ovid, Tristia

• vigil ignis [poet.]

  Vesta eadem est et terra: subest vigil ignis utrique —Ovid, Fasti

  centum aras posuit vigilemque sacraverat ignem —Vergil, Aeneis

Verb constructions

• excitare vigilem

  cum excitasset vigilem § ii ... Latine omnes loquentes excitant vigiles aperirique portam iubent § vigiles velut ad vocem eorum excitati ... § quo excitatus vigil cum proximum movisset erectique alios concitarent —Livy, ab Urbe Condita

  vigiles simul excitat —Vergil, Aeneis

• vigiles sentiunt

  quorum strepitum vigiles castrorum cum sensissent —Aulus Hirtius, de Bello Gallico

  sensere vigiles § cum senserit hostium adventum, recipiat se excitetque ad arma alios —Livy, ab Urbe Condita

• caedere vigiles

  hostes in arce esse et caedi vigiles —Livy, ab Urbe Condita

  caeduntur vigiles —Vergil, Aeneis

• vigiles obtruncare

  Nico ex improviso adortus sopitos vigiles in cubilibus suis obtruncat § ingressi deinde triginta fere armati ceteros vigiles obtruncant refringuntque portam —Livy, ab Urbe Condita