Vestio, vestis, vestíui, vestîtum, vestîre, pen. pro. Ter. To apparaile: to adourne: to decke: to couer.Ali & vestiriab aliquo.Cic.To be kepte and founde meate and drinke, and cloth.Ex suo corpore contra frigus vestiri. Ouin. Spolijs ferarum vestire corpus. Lucret. To clothe or couer the bodie with beasts skinnes.Vestiri pilo. Plin. To be couered with haire.Parietcs tabulis vestire. Cicero. To adourne and decke the walles with painted tables.Agrum vineis vestire. Col. To adourne and decke the field ouer and oner with vineyards.Colles vestit vitis. Col. Sepulchrum vestire.Cic.To couer with, &c.Aether vestit campos purpureo lumine.Virg.Ebur atria vestit. Luca The halles are adorned with Iuory.Hortum vestit morus.Plin. iun.Garntsheth.Hyems vestit montem gelu. Claud. Tonereth.Seges vestic iter. Claud.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
vestĭo, īvi or ĭi, ītum, 4 (imperf. vestibat, Verg. A. 8, 160; inf. vestirier, Prud. Psych. 39), v. a. [vestis], to cover with a garment, to dress, clothe, vest (syn.: induo, amicio). I.Lit.: Vatinii strumam sacerdotii diba/fw( vestiant, Cic. Att. 2, 9, 2: vir te vestiat, tu virum despolies, Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 4: candide vestitus, id. ib. 4, 1, 10: vos tam maestiter vestitas, id. Rud. 1, 5, 7: homines male vestiti, Cic. Pis. 25, 61: fasciae, quibus crura vestiuntur, Quint. 11, 3, 144: te bis Afro Murice tinctae Vestiunt lanae, Hor. C. 2, 16, 37: sic Indos suae arbores vestiunt, Plin. 12, 11, 22, 39: Phrygiā vestitur bucca tiarā, Juv. 6, 516: unam vestire tribum tua vellera possunt, Mart. 2, 46, 5.—Mid.: vestiri in foro honeste mos erat, Cato ap. Gell. 11, 2, 5: lino alii vestiuntur aut lanis, Mel. 3, 7, 3.—So, in late Lat., in the active form: tu mihi vitio dabis, quod parcius pasco, levius vestio,
am clothed
, App. Mag. p. 287, 26; Tert. Pall. 1.—B.Transf.1. Of animals: animantes aliae coriis tectae sunt, aliae villis vestitae, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 121: sandyx pascentis vestiet agnos, Verg. E. 4, 45: pleraque contra frigus ex suo corpore vestiuntur, Quint. 2, 16, 14.—2. In gen., of inanimate things, to clothe, cover, deck, array, attire, surround, adorn, etc.: campos lumine (aether), Verg. A. 6, 640: natura oculos membranis tenuissimis vestivit et saepsit, Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 142; cf.: deus animum circumdedit corpore et vestivit extrinsecus, id. Univ. 6 fin.: sepulcrum saeptum undique et vestitum vepribus et dumetis, id. Tusc. 5, 23, 64: his tabulis templi parietes vestiebantur, id. Verr. 2, 4, 55, 122.—3. Esp., of vegetation: montes silvis, Liv. 32, 13, 3: vite hederāque vestiti montes, Just. 12, 7, 7.—Absol.: montes vestiti, i. e.
covered with verdure
, Cic. N. D. 2, 53, 132: trabes multo aggere, Caes. B. G. 7, 23; cf. of the beard: molli lanugine malas, Lucr. 5, 889: genas flore, Verg. A. 8, 160: oleā magnum Taburnum, Verg. G. 2, 38: gramine vestitis accubuere toris, Ov. F. 1, 402: incendit vestitos messibus agros, id. ib. 4, 707; Curt. 6, 5, 15; Prop. 3, 13 (4, 12), 31: ubi se vites frondibus vestierint, Col. 4, 27, 1: se gramine (terra), Verg. G. 2, 219.—II.Trop., to clothe, etc.: reconditas exquisitasque sententias mollis et pellucens vestiebat oratio, Cic. Brut. 79, 274: inventa vestire atque ornare oratione, id. de Or. 1, 31, 142: gloriā aliquem supra vires, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 22: res, quae illo verborum habitu vestiuntur, Quint. 8, praef. 20; cf. of mental culture: aridum atque jejunum non alemus et quasi vestiemus?id. 2, 8, 9.—B. Esp., to invest with the imperial purple, to make emperor: quaere quem vestias, Amm. 26, 4, 1.—Hence, vestītus, a, um, P. a., clothed, clad (very rare): neque unā pelle vestitior fuit (Hercules), App. Mag. p. 288, 28.—So comp., Tert. Anim. 38.— Sup.: id pecus (oves) ex omnibus animalibus vestitissimum, Col. 7, 3, 8.
