I.to appear like spring, to flourish, be verdant; to spring, bloom, grow young, renew itself, etc. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn. vireo).
I. Lit.: “humus,” Ov. M. 7, 284: “arbores fruticesque,” Plin. 22, 22, 46, § 95: “caelum,” id. 7, 2, 2, § 26: “caelum bis floribus,” Flor. 1, 16, 3: “in Italiā aër semper quodammodo vernat vel auctumnat,” Plin. 2, 50, 51, § 136: “silva vernat,” Sen. Herc. Oet. 380: “vernantia lilia,” blooming, Col. 10, 270: “avis,” i. e. begins to sing, Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 8; cf. “apes,” Col. 9, 9, 1; “hence also: ager arguto passere,” becomes enlivened again, resounds anew, Mart. 9, 55, 8: “anguis,” i. e. sheds its skin, Plin. 8, 27, 41, § 99.—
II. Transf.: “cum tibi vernarent dubiā lanugine malae,” get the first down, Mart. 2, 61, 1: dum vernat sanguis, is young or lively, Prop. 4 (5), 5, 57. “senio vernante,” Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 316.
