vigilance Copy link Outline 1. vĭgĭlantia2. vĭgĭlia3. custōdia4. prospĭcientia • vigilance: 1. vĭgĭlantia: by valour and remarkable v., virtute et v. singulari, Cic. Verr. 5, 1, 1: and pass. 2. vĭgĭlia: by v. and foresight, v. et prospicientia, id. Phil. 7, 7, 19: cf. id. Fam. 11, 24, 1: v. also vigilant (4). 3. custōdia: to guard one with greater v., intentiore c. aliquem asservare, Liv. 39, 19, post init.: the shepherd's v., c. pastoris, Col. 8, 4, 3: the v. of dogs, c. canum, Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 158: v. also guardianship. 4. prospĭcientia: v. foresight: also care (subs., II.), carefulness (II.), caution (I.). Phr.: to exercise v., vigilare: one must always exercise v., vigilandum est semper, Poet. ap. Cic. Planc. 24, 59: to redouble v. (in guarding) the prisons, lautumiarum intentiorem curam habere, Liv. 32, 26, ad fin.: our men had relaxed all their old v., superioris temporis contentionem nostri omnem remiserant, Caes. B. C. 2, 14, fin. [For with v., v. vigilantly]: v. also watchfulness.