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vĭrĕo , ui, ēre, v. n.,
I.to be green or verdant (syn. viridor).
II. Trop., to be fresh, vigorous, or lively; to flourish, bloom: “vegetum ingenium vivido pectore vigebat, virebatque integris sensibus,Liv. 6, 22, 7; cf. Hor. C. 1, 9, 17: “Chia,id. ib. 4, 13, 6: “dum virent genua,id. Epod. 13, 4: “aetas populi Romani viruit,Flor. 1, 22: “ut novus serpens ... solet squamā virere recenti,Ov. M. 9, 267: “virium gloriā virente florere,Just. 4, 4, 5.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2.777
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.206
    • Vergil, Georgics, 4.18
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 117
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.837
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.267
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 6, 22.7
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 5.13
    • Sextus Propertius, Elegies, 2.34
    • Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum, 1.22
    • Ovid, Fasti, 5
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