VIGENS; VEGETUS; VIVIDUS; VIVUS; ANIMANS; VITALIS; VIVAX. 1. +Vigens+ (#aixai#) denotes a man, both in body and mind, fresh and in full strength; +vegetus+, one, in a mental sense, on the alert and animated; +vividus+ (from #êus#? or from vis?), one, in a moral sense, full of life and energy. Liv. vi. 22. Exactæ jam ætatis Camillus erat . . . sed _vegetum_ ingenium in _vivido_ pectore _vigebat_, virebatque integris sensibus. 2. +Vivus+ (Goth. quiws) means living, in opp. to dead; +animans+, possessing life, in opp. to inanimate. 3. +Vitalis+ means long-lived; +vivax+, tenacious of life. (iv. 445.)
VIGIL; INSOMNIS; EXSOMNIS. +Vigil+ denotes the state of being awake as positive, and involves consciousness and will, and the application of vital energy, like #agrupnos#; whereas +insomnis+ and +exsomnis+, only negatively, as sleepless, #aupnos#; but the +insomnis+ cannot sleep; the +exsomnis+ will not sleep. Tac. Ann. i. 65. Cum oberrarent tentoriis _insomnes_ magis quam _pervigiles_. Vell. P. ii. 88. Mæcenas ubi rem _vigiliam_ exigeret, sane _exsomnis_. Hor. Od. iii. 7, 6. Frigidas noctes non sine multis _insomnis_ lacrimis agit; comp. with 25, 7. Non secus in jugis _exsomnis_ stupet Evias; or Virg. Æn. ix. 167, with vi. 556. (iv. 444.)
VILLA; FUNDUS; PRÆDIUM; AGER; CAMPUS; RUS; ARVUM. 1. +Villa+ (dimin. of #hedos#) denotes a country-house, usually with a real estate; +fundus+, a real estate, usually with a country-house; +prædium+, sometimes a country-house, sometimes a real estate, like landed property. At the same time +villa+ is an architectural term; +fundus+, an economical term; +prædium+, a juridical term. Cato, R. R. 3. Ita ædifices, ne _villa fundum_ quærat, neve _fundus villam_. 2. +Villa+, +fundus+, and +prædium+, suppose a proprietor, like _portio_; whereas +ager+, +arvum+, +rus+, and +campus+, are thought of without reference to a proprietor, like _pars_. 3. +Ager+ and +campus+ denote the field, whether cultivated or not; +ager+ (#agros#), the open field, in opp. to ground that is built upon, or planted with trees, consequently in opp. to _urbs_, _oppidum_, _vicus_, _hortus_, _silva_, like #agros#; whereas +campus+ (#kêpos#) denotes the low-lands and plains, like #pedion#, consequently in opp. to the high-lands, _mons_ and _collis_; Cic. Div. i. 42. N. D. ii. 60. Colum. i. 2. Herenn. iv. 18. 25. Curt. viii. 1, 4. 4. +Rus+ and +arvum+ denote the corn-field; +rus+ (#arotos#) in opp. to the village or the town, like #aroura#; +arvum+, in opp. to pasture-lands and plantations, consequently in opp. to _pabulum_, _pascuum_, _pratum_, _olivetum_, Sall. Jug. 95. Cic. N. D. i. 45. Plaut. Truc. i. 2, 47. Hor. Ep. i. 16, 2. like #arotos#. Cic. Fr. ap. Quintil. iv. 2. _Fundum_ habet in _agro_ Tiburino Tullius paternum. Orat. iii. 33. De _fundo_ emendo, de _agro_ colendo. Tac. G. 26. _Arva_ per annos mutant, et superest _ager_. (iii. 5.)