vigilias+agere+ad+aedes+sacras

vĭgĭlĭa, ae, f. ( neutr. collat. form vĭgĭ-lĭum, Varr. ap. Non. p. 232, 4) [vigil].

Lit.

In gen., wakefulness, sleeplessness, a lying awake:

ut neque vigilia praecesserit neque ventris resolutio,

Cels. 2, 6:

corporum robora nocturnā vigiliā minuere,

id. 1 init.:

cui non sunt auditae Demosthenis vigiliae?

Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44; id. Par. prooem. § 5.—

In partic.

Lit., a keeping awake for the security of a place, esp. of a city or camp, a watching, watch, guard (cf.:

excubiae, statio): noctu vigilias agere ad aedes sacras,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 93:

vestra tecta custodiis vigiliisque defendite,

id. Cat. 2, 12, 26:

exercitus stationibus vigiliisque fessus,

Liv. 5, 48, 6:

vigiles scutum in vigiliam ferre vetuit,

to take on guard, id. 44, 33, 8:

vigiliarum nocturnarum curam per urbem magistratibus mandavimus,

id. 39, 16, 12.—

Transf.

A watch, i. e. the time of keeping watch by night, among the Romans a fourth part of the night:

nox in quattuor vigilias dividitur, quae singulae trium horarum spatio supputantur,

Hier. Ep. 140, 8:

primā vigiliā capite arma frequentes,

Liv. 5, 44, 7; 10, 34, 13; 21, 27, 2:

cum puer tuus ad me secundā fere vigiliā venisset,

Cic. Fam. 3, 7, 4:

de tertiā vigiliā,

Caes. B. G. 1, 12:

tertiā vigiliā,

id. ib. 2, 33; Liv. 9, 44, 10:

de quartā vigiliā,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40.—

The watch, i. e. those standing on guard, watchmen, sentinels:

milites disponit, non certis spatiis intermissis sed perpetuis vigiliis stationibusque,

Caes. B. C. 1, 21; 2, 19; Cic. Mil. 25, 67; Sall. C. 32, 1; id. J. 45, 2; 100, 4; Liv. 39, 14, 10.—

A watching at religious festivals, nightly vigils:

Cereris vigiliae,

Plaut. Aul. prol. 36; 4, 10, 65.—

Trop., watchfulness, vigilance (the figure taken from military sentinels; perh. only in the foll. passages;

whereas vigilantia is far more freq.): ut vacuum metu populum Romanum nostrā vigiliā et prospicientiā redderemus,

Cic. Phil. 7, 7, 19; cf.:

quasi in vigiliā quādam consulari ac senatoriā,

id. ib. 1, 1, 1: cupio jam vigiliam meam, Brute, tibi tradere: sed ita, ut ne desim constantiae meae, my post, i. e. my office, duty, id. Fam. 11, 24, 1.— Plur.: cum summis vigiliis aliquid perficere, Just. Inst. prooem. § 1.