vestitus

1.

vestītus, a, um, Part. and P. a. of vestio.

2.

vestītus, ūs, m. [vestio], clothing, clothes, dress, apparel, raiment, attire, vesture.

I.

Lit.: hoc cum vestitu, Enn. ap. Non. p. 537, 28 (Trag. v. 373 Vahl.):

immutabilis,

Plaut. Ep. 4, 2, 8:

muliebris,

Cic. Att. 1, 13, 3; id. Rosc. Am. 49, 144:

obsoletior,

id. Agr. 2, 5, 13; id. Quint. 15, 49; Caes. B. G. 4, 1; 7, 88; Liv. 29, 17, 11:

mutare vestitum = mutare vestem,

to put on mourning garments, to put on mourning, Cic. Sest. 14, 32; id. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 1; id. Att. 3, 15, 5; cf.

on the contrary: redire ad suum vestitum,

to resume one's ordinary clothing, to lay off mourning, id. Sest. 14, 32: vestitu (dat.) nimio indulges, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 38.—Abstr.:

me saturum servire apud te sumptu et vestitu tuo,

i. e. with the clothing that you give, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 72.—

B.

Transf., of inanim. things, covering, etc.:

adde huc liquores perlucidos amnium, riparum vestitus viridissimos,

Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 98:

densissimi montium,

id. ib. 2, 64, 161.—

* II.

Trop.:

orationis,

Cic. Brut. 95, 327.