vĭgĭlĭum
neutral noun II declension

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1 wakefulness, sleeplessness, a lying awake
2 keeping awake for the security of a place, especially of a city or camp, a watching, watch, guard
3 watch, the time of keeping watch by night, among the Romans a fourth part of the night
4 the watch, those standing on guard, watchmen, sentinels
5 watching at religious festivals, nightly vigils
6 watchfulness, vigilance

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ab incendio intellegebat urbem vigiliis munitam = he understood that the city was protected from the fire by the guards watching over




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