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vigilans

vigilans is a Latin form of vigilo, meaning “be awake, watch; (vigil) watchman; (vigiliae) watch, guard”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 32 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 6.10: … sermonesque nostri pariant aliquid in somno tale, quale de Homero scribit Ennius, de quo videlicet saepissime vigilans solebat cogitare et loqui) Africanus se ostendit ea forma, quae mihi ex imagine eius quam ex ipso erat notior …

Tibullus, Elegiae 3.12.11: Nec possit cupidos uigilans deprendere custos

Plautus, Amphitruo 2.2.726b: Immo vígilans vigilantem.

All forms of vigilo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.