vireo

1.

vĭrĕo, ui, ēre, v. n., to be green or verdant (syn. viridor).

I.

Lit.:

alia semper virent, alia, hieme nudatā, verno tempore tepefacta frondescunt,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 13, 37:

fronde virere novā,

Verg. A. 6, 206:

quo viret uva jugo,

Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 78:

quod pubes hederā virente Gaudeat,

Hor. C. 1, 25, 17:

summa (montis) pinu,

Ov. F. 5, 382:

lucus,

id. M. 14, 837:

agellus,

Hor. A. P. 117:

stagna musco,

Verg. G. 4, 18:

circa ilicibus virentem Alburnum,

id. ib. 3, 146:

pectora felle,

Ov. M. 2, 777: metalla Taygeti, of the green Spartan marble, Mart. 6, 42, 11; 9, 76, 9.—

II.

Trop., to be fresh, vigorous, or lively; to flourish, bloom:

vegetum ingenium vivido pectore vigebat, virebatque integris sensibus,

Liv. 6, 22, 7; cf. Hor. C. 1, 9, 17:

Chia,

id. ib. 4, 13, 6:

dum virent genua,

id. Epod. 13, 4:

aetas populi Romani viruit,

Flor. 1, 22:

ut novus serpens... solet squamā virere recenti,

Ov. M. 9, 267:

virium gloriā virente florere,

Just. 4, 4, 5.

2.

vĭrĕo, ōnis, m., a kind of bird; acc. to some, the greenfinch, Plin. 18, 29, 69, § 292.