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ē-vĭgĭlo , āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and
I.a.
I. Neutr.
B. To be wakeful, vigilant.Trop.: “in quo evigilaverunt curae et cogitationes meae, si? etc.,Cic. Par. 2, 17; Vulg. 1 Cor. 15, 34.—
II. Act., to watch through, pass without sleeping: “nox evigilanda,Tib. 1, 8, 64.—
B. Transf., to elaborate carefully, to compose, prepare (cf. elucubro).
1. Lit.: “libros,Ov. Tr. 1, 1, 108; cf. Gell. 1, 7, 4.— *
2. Trop.: “consilia evigilata cogitationibus,Cic. Att. 9, 12, 1.—Pass. impers.: etsi nobis, qui id aetatis sumus, evigilatum ferest, tamen, etc., we have nearly done with watching or caring for ourselves, Cic. Rep. 3, 29, 41.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (11):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 9.12.1
    • New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 15.34
    • Old Testament, Genesis, 28.16
    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 78
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 9.36
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 1.5.8
    • Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum, 2
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, 4.12
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 1.7.4
    • Ovid, Tristia, 1.1
    • Statius, Silvae, 5.3
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