Lewis & Short

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vīvĭdus, a, um, adj. [vivo], containing life, living, animated (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf. Fest. p. 376 Müll.).

  1. I. In gen. (very rare): tellus, Lucr. 1, 178.
    1. B. Transf., of pictorial representations, true to the life, animated, spirited, vivid: signa, Prop. 2, 31 (3, 29), 8: cera, Mart. 7, 44, 2: imago, Claud. B. Get. 468 (cf.: vivi de marmore vultus, Verg. A. 6, 848).
      Far more freq.,
  2. II. Pregn., full of life, lively, vigorous, vivid: corpus, Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 10: senectus, Tac. A. 6, 27: Umber (canis), Verg. A. 12, 753: dextra bello, id. ib. 10, 609: vis animi, Lucr. 1, 72; so, animi, Plin. Pan. 44, 6: ingenium, Liv. 2, 48, 3: pectus, id. 6, 22, 7: bello vivida virtus, Verg. A. 5, 754: odia, Tac. A. 15, 49: eloquentia, id. ib. 13, 42: epigrammata, Mart. 11, 42, 1.
    Comp.: merum, Mart. 8, 6, 12: spiritus, Val. Max. 5, 1, ext. 1.
    Adv.: vīvĭdē, vigorously (acc. to II.); in comp., Gell. 7, 3, 53; Amm. 30, 1, 7.