I.containing life, living, animated (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf. Fest. p. 376 Müll.).
I. In gen. (very rare): “tellus,” Lucr. 1, 178.—
B. Transf., of pictorial representations, true to the life, animated, spirited, vivid: “signa,” Prop. 2, 31 (3, 29), 8: “cera,” Mart. 7, 44, 2: “imago,” Claud. B. Get. 468 (cf.: “vivi de marmore vultus,” Verg. A. 6, 848).—Far more freq.,
II. Pregn., full of life, lively, vigorous, vivid: “corpus,” Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 10: “senectus,” Tac. A. 6, 27: “Umber (canis),” Verg. A. 12, 753: “dextra bello,” id. ib. 10, 609: “vis animi,” Lucr. 1, 72; so, “animi,” Plin. Pan. 44, 6: “ingenium,” Liv. 2, 48, 3: “pectus,” id. 6, 22, 7: “bello vivida virtus,” Verg. A. 5, 754: “odia,” Tac. A. 15, 49: “eloquentia,” id. ib. 13, 42: “epigrammata,” Mart. 11, 42, 1.— Comp.: “merum,” Mart. 8, 6, 12: “spiritus,” Val. Max. 5, 1, ext. 1.—Adv.: vīvĭdē , vigorously (acc. to II.); in comp., Gell. 7, 3, 53; Amm. 30, 1, 7.
