Végetus, végeta, végetum. pe. co. Ci. Whole: strong: in healthe: quicke: sounde: lustie: fresh: liuely.Vegeta mens. Ci. Vegetum ingenium. Liu.Præbere se vegetum & acrem ad aliquid faciendum.Cicer.To thew him selfe liuely and quicke to do a thing.Vegetior aspectus. Col. A more liuelie and quicke looke.Interuallum temporis vegetissimum agricolis. Plini. The lustiest and most busie time to husbandmen.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
vĕgĕtus, a, um, adj. [vegeo], enlivened, lively, animated, vigorous, active, brisk, sprightly (class.; cf.: acer, alacer, valens). I.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.—II.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,
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, Aus. Eph. Ord. Cog. 3.—Sup.: hoc intervallum temporis vegetissimum agricolis maximeque operosum est,