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|lshtext=<b>vĕgĕtus</b>: a, um, adj. [[vegeo]],<br /><b>I</b> enlivened, [[lively]], [[animated]], [[vigorous]], [[active]], [[brisk]], [[sprightly]] ([[class]].; cf.: [[acer]], [[alacer]], [[valens]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: te vegetum nobis in Graeciā siste, Cic. Att. 10, 16, 6: fessi cum recentibus ac vegetis pugnabant, Liv. 22, 47, 10: [[vegetus]] praescripta ad [[munia]] surgit, Hor. S. 2, 2, 81: nigris vegetisque oculis, valetudine prosperā, Suet. Caes. 45: vegetior ab inferis recurrit, App. M. 6, p. 181, 32.—Comp.: vegetior [[aspectus]] (tauri), Col. 6, 20.—Sup.: vegetissimus [[color]] conchyliorum, Plin. 21, 8, 22, § 46.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.: [[mens]], Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 41: sed vegetum [[ingenium]] in [[vivido]] pectore vigebat, Liv. 6, 22, 7: tertia [[pars]] rationis et mentis, Cic. Div. 1, 29, 61: [[libertas]], Sen. Hippol. 459: [[gustus]], [[keen]], Aus. Eph. Ord. Cog. 3.—Sup.: hoc [[intervallum]] temporis vegetissimum agricolis maximeque operosum est, the liveliest, busiest, Plin. 18, 26, 65, § 238.
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