vigiles

vigiles is a Latin form of vigilo, meaning “be awake, watch; (vigil) watchman; (vigiliae) watch, guard”.

It can also be a form of vigil, “awake, watchful; (noun) watchman”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective or accusative plural masculine adjective or 2nd person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 63 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.35.4: Quorum strepitum vigiles castrorum cum sensissent, exploratoresque missi quae gererentur renuntiassent, Caninius celeriter cum cohortibus armatis ex proximis castellis in frumentarios sub ipsam lucem impetum fecit.

Vergil, Aeneid 9.221: adceleremus, ait. Vigiles simul excitat, illi

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 30.1: … stratus sortito tuerentur, hos magistri e plebe cuiusque uiciniae lecti. aduersus incendia excubias nocturnas uigilesque commentus est; ad coercendas inundationes alueum Tiberis laxauit ac repurgauit completum olim ruderibus et …

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.