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|lshtext=<b>ĭmāgo</b>: ĭnis, f. cf. [[imitor]],<br /><b>I</b> an [[imitation]], [[copy]] of a [[thing]], an [[image]], [[likeness]] (i. e. a [[picture]], [[statue]], [[mask]], an [[apparition]], [[ghost]], [[phantom]]; the [[latter]] [[only]] [[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]; cf.: [[simulacrum]], [[effigies]], [[statua]], [[sigillum]]): [[imago]] ab imitatione dicta, Paul. ex Fest. p. 112 Müll.; cf.: [[imago]] dicitur [[quasi]] imitago, Porphyr. Hor. C. 1, 12, 4.<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen., a [[representation]], [[likeness]] (usu. of a [[person]]), [[statue]], [[bust]], [[picture]]: [[Spartiates]] [[Agesilaus]] [[neque]] pictam [[neque]] fictam imaginem suam [[passus]] est esse ... [[unus]] Xenophontis [[libellus]] in eo rege laudando [[facile]] omnes imagines omnium statuasque superavit, Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 7: [[Demosthenes]], cujus [[nuper]] [[inter]] imagines tuas ac tuorum imaginem ex aere vidi, id. Or. 31, 110: Epicuri in poculis et in anulis, id. Fin. 5, 1, 3: hominis imaginem [[gypso]] e facie ipsa [[primus]] omnium expressit ceraque in eam formam gypsi infusa emendare instituit [[Lysistratus]] Sicyonius, Plin. 35, 12, 44, § 153: Africani, Cic. Rep. 6, 10: mulieris, Quint. 7, 7, 5: Antigoni, id. 2, 13, 12: depictam in [[tabula]] sipariove imaginem rei, id. 6, 1, 32: si in [[tabula]] mea [[aliquis]] pinxerit [[velut]] imaginem, Gai. Inst. 2, 78: cereae, Hor. Epod. 17, 76; id. S. 1, 8, 43: ut [[dignus]] venias hederis et [[imagine]] macra, Juv. 7, 29: hoc [[tibi]] sub nostra breve [[carmen]] [[imagine]] vivat, Mart. 9, 1: [[epistula]] [[atque]] [[imago]] me certum fecit, i. e. the [[image]] on the [[seal]], the [[signet]], Plaut. Ps. 4, 6, 35; 4, 2, 29; 4, 7, 105: [[nunc]] amici [[anne]] inimici sis [[imago]], Alcesime, mihi, sciam, i. e. [[will]] [[act]] [[like]] a [[friend]], Plaut. Cas. 3, 1, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[phantom]], [[ghost]], [[apparition]]: [[infelix]] [[simulacrum]] [[atque]] ipsius [[umbra]] Creusae Visa mihi [[ante]] oculos et [[nota]] major [[imago]], Verg. A. 2, 773; cf.: et [[nunc]] magna mei sub terras ibit [[imago]], [[shade]], [[spirit]], Verg. A. 4, 654; Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 6; cf. id. ib. 1: non vanae redeat [[sanguis]] imagini, Hor. C. 1, 24, 15: ([[somnus]]) Vanum nocturnis fallit imaginibus, Tib. 3, 4, 56; cf. Hor. C. 3, 27, 40; Suet. Aug. 94; id. Calig. 50: te videt in somnis, tua sacra et major [[imago]] humana turbat pavidum, Juv. 13, 221: [[quid]] natum [[totiens]] falsis Ludis imaginibus? phantoms, Verg. A. 1, 408: [[ubique]] [[pavor]] et plurima mortis [[imago]], id. ib. 2, 369; cf.: repetitaque mortis [[imago]], Ov. M. 10, 726: lurida mortis [[imago]], Petr. 123, v. 257: [[varia]] pereuntium [[forma]] et omni [[imagine]] mortium, Tac. H. 3, 28: caesorum insepultorumque, id. A. 1, 62: supremorum (i. e. funeris) [[imago]], id. H. 4, 45.—Poet.: genitiva ([[with]] [[forma]]), [[natural]] [[shape]], [[figure]], Ov. M. 3, 331; so, [[rudis]] et [[sine]] [[imagine]] [[tellus]] (= [[informis]]), [[shapeless]], id. ib. 1, 87.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic., an [[ancestral]] [[image]] of a [[distinguished]] Roman (of one [[who]] had been [[aedile]], [[praetor]], or [[consul]]; [[usually]] made of [[wax]], and placed in the [[atrium]] of a Roman [[house]], and carried in [[funeral]] processions.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In plur.: obrepsisti ad honores errore hominum, commendatione fumosarum imaginum, quarum [[simile]] habes [[nihil]] [[praeter]] colorem, of [[smoky]] (i. e. old) [[ancestral]] images, Cic. Pis. 1, 1; cf. Sen. Ben. 3, 28, 1; Plin. 35, 2, 2, § 6: si [[quid]] deliquero, nullae sunt imagines, quae me a [[vobis]] deprecentur, no ancestors of [[distinction]], Cic. Agr. 2, 36, 100; cf.: [[quia]] imagines non [[habeo]] et [[quia]] mihi nova [[nobilitas]] est, Sall. J. 85, 25: qui imagines familiae suae consecuti sunt, Cic. Agr. 2, 1, 1: [[homo]] veteris prosapiae ac multarum imaginum, Sall. J. 85, 10: majorum imagines, id. ib. 5, 5; Suet. Vesp. 1: multis in [[familia]] senatoriis imaginibus, id. Aug. 4: esto beata, [[funus]] [[atque]] imagines Ducant triumphales tuum, Hor. Epod. 8, 11: qui stupet in titulis et imaginibus, id. S. 1, 6, 17; Plin. 35, 2, 2, § 6 sqq.; Prop. 2, 13, 19; Suet. Vesp. 19.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In sing. ([[rare]]): jus imaginis, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 14, § 36: imaginis ornandae [[causa]], id. Sest. 8, 19: vir honoratissimae imaginis [[futurus]] ad posteros, Liv. 3, 58, 2: clarum hac [[fore]] [[imagine]] Scaptium, would [[become]] an aristocrat, id. 3, 72, 4, v. Weissenb. ad loc.: Tunc [[Cotta]] ne [[imago]] Libonis exsequias posterorum comitaretur censuit, Tac. A. 2, 32.<br /><b>II</b> Transf., a [[reverberation]] of [[sound]], an [[echo]] ([[mostly]] [[poet]].): (mellaria facere [[oportet]]) potissimum ubi non resonent imagines, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 12: concava pulsu [[Saxa]] sonant, vocisque [[offensa]] resultat [[imago]], Verg. G. 4, 50; cf. Sil. 14, 365: alternae [[deceptus]] [[imagine]] vocis: Huc coëamus ait ... Coëamus retulit [[Echo]], Ov. M. 3, 385: cujus recinit jocosa Nomen [[imago]], Hor. C. 1, 12, 4; so, jocosa Vaticani montis, id. ib. 1, 20, 8: vaga, Val. Fl. 3, 596.<br /><b>III</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen., an [[image]] or [[likeness]] of a [[thing]] formed in the [[mind]], a [[conception]], [[thought]], [[imagination]], [[idea]]: Scipionis memoriam [[atque]] imaginem sibi proponere, Cic. Lael. 27, 102: magnam partem noctium in [[imagine]] tua [[vigil]] [[exigo]], Plin. Ep. 7, 5, 1: Verginium [[cogito]], Verginium [[video]], Verginium jam vanis imaginibus [[audio]], id. ib. 2, 1, 12: imagines, quae εἴδωλα nominant, quorum incursione non [[solum]] videmus, sed [[etiam]] cogitamus, Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 21; cf.: imagines [[extrinsecus]] in animos nostros per [[corpus]] irrumpere, id. Ac. 2, 40, 125: plena sunt imaginum omnia, nulla [[species]] cogitari potest [[nisi]] pulsu imaginum, etc.; id. Div. 2, 67, 137 sq.: unum aliquem te ex barbatis illis, [[exemplum]] imperii veteris, imaginem antiquitatis, [[columen]] rei publicae diceres intueri, an [[image]] of the [[olden]] [[time]], id. Sest. 8, 19; cf.: expressam imaginem vitae quotidianae videre, id. Rosc. Am. 16, 47: [[quidnam]] [[illi]] consules dictatoresve facturi essent, qui proconsularem imaginem tam saevam ac trucem fecerint, i. e. by [[cruelty]] in [[office]], Liv. 5, 2, 9: naturae ... urbis et populi, Cic. Rep. 2, 39 fin.: justitiae, Quint. 2, 20, 6: virtutis, id. 10, 2, 15: similitudines ad exprimendas rerum imagines compositae, id. 8, 3, 72: illae rerum imagines, quas vocari φαντασίας indicavimus, id. 10, 7, 15: conscripta formantur [[imagine]] templa, plans, Stat. S. 3, 1, 117: scipione determinata [[prius]] templi [[imagine]] in [[solo]], Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 15: tua, [[pater]] Druse, [[imago]], [[memory]], Tac. A. 1, 13: magna [[illic]] [[imago]] tristium laetorumque, [[recollection]], id. ib. 2, 53: si te nulla movet tantae pietatis [[imago]], Verg. A. 6, 405.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In rhet., a figurative [[representation]], [[similitude]], [[comparison]]: comparabile est, [[quod]] in rebus diversis similem [[aliquam]] rationem continet. Ejus partes sunt [[tres]]: [[imago]], [[collatio]], [[exemplum]]. Imago est [[oratio]] demonstrans corporum aut naturarum similitudinem, etc., Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 49; cf.: [[imago]] est formae cum [[forma]] cum quadam similitudine [[collatio]], Auct. Her. 4, 49, 62; Sen. Ep. 59, 92; Quint. 6, 1, 28; Hor. S. 2, 3, 320; id. Ep. 1, 7, 34.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With the [[idea]] predominating of [[mere]] [[imitation]], in opp. to [[what]] is [[original]] or [[real]], a [[mere]] form, [[image]], [[semblance]], [[appearance]], [[shadow]]: consectatur nullam eminentem effigiem virtutis, sed adumbratam imaginem gloriae, Cic. Tusc. 3, 2, 3: nos veri juris germanaeque justitiae solidam et expressam effigiem nullam tenemus: [[umbra]] et imaginibus utimur, id. Off. 3, 17, 69; cf.: non in [[umbra]] et [[imagine]] civitatis, etc., id. Rep. 2, 30; and: umbram equitis Romani et imaginem videtis, id. Rab. Post. 15, 41: haec ars tota dicendi, [[sive]] artis [[imago]] quaedam est et [[similitudo]], habet hanc vim, ut, etc., id. de Or. 2, 87, 356: judiciorum, [[only]] the [[appearance]] of courts, id. Sest. 13, 30; cf.: imaginem rei publicae nullam reliquissent, id. Agr. 2, 32, 88: his [[quoque]] imaginibus juris spretis, Liv. 41, 8, 10: imaginem retinendi largiendive [[penes]] nos, vim [[penes]] Parthos, Tac. A. 15, 14: habitu et [[ore]] ad exprimendam imaginem honesti [[exercitus]], the [[pretence]], id. ib. 16, 32; 6, 27; id. H. 1, 84; 3, 70: qui faciem eloquentiae, non imaginem praestaret, id. Or. 34: nec [[imagine]] rerum, sed rebus incendit, Quint. 10, 1, 16: in falsa rerum [[imagine]] detineri, id. 10, 5, 17; cf.: nullo [[quippe]] [[alio]] vincis discrimine, [[quam]] [[quod]] [[illi]] (hermae) marmoreum [[caput]] est, tua vivit [[imago]], Juv. 8, 55.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[representative]]: non in [[effigies]] mutas divinum (Augusti) spiritum transfusum; sed imaginem veram, caelesti [[sanguine]] ortam, intellegere [[discrimen]], etc., Tac. A. 4, 52.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>4</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That [[which]] suggests or recalls [[something]] by [[resemblance]], a [[reminder]]: me consolatur [[recordatio]] meorum temporum, quorum imaginem [[video]] in rebus tuis, Cic. Fam. 1, 6, 2: a Corbulone petierat, ne [[quam]] imaginem servitii [[Tiridates]] perferret, [[nothing]] to [[suggest]] [[slavery]], Tac. A. 15, 31; cf.: moriar, si [[praeter]] te quemquam reliquum [[habeo]], in quo possim imaginem antiquae et vernaculae festivitatis adgnoscere, Cic. Fam. 9, 15, 2.
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|gf=<b>ĭmāgō</b>,⁷ gĭnis, f. (racine im, cf. [[imitor]] ),<br /><b>1</b> représentation, imitation, portrait : alicujus picta, ficta Cic. Fam. 5, 1, 7, portrait, statue de qqn ; alicujus ex ære Cic. Or. 110, statue de qqn en airain<br /><b>2</b> [en part.] portrait d’ancêtre, image [en cire, placée dans l’[[atrium]], portée aux funérailles] : Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 36 ; Sest. 19 ; Liv. 3, 58, 2 || surtout au pl. : [[jus]] imaginum, le droit d’images, réservé aux nobles ; fumosæ imagines Cic. Pis. 1, portraits enfumés des ancêtres, cf. Cic. Agr. 2, 100 ; Sall. J. 4, 5 ; 85, 25 ; [[homo]] multarum imaginum Sall. J. 85, 10, homme qui [[compte]] de nombreux ancêtres, de haute noblesse<br /><b>3</b> image, ombre d’un mort : Virg. En. 2, 773 ; 4, 654 ; imagines mortuorum Cic. Div. 1, 63, les images des morts || fantôme, vision, songe, apparition : Hor. O. 3, 27, 40 ; Tib. 3, 4, 56 || spectre : Plin. Min. Ep. 7, 27, 6<br /><b>4</b> écho : [[vocis]] Virg. G. 4, 50 ou [[imago]] seul [[Varro]] R. 3, 16, 12 ; Hor. O. 1, 20, 6 ; [[gloria]] virtuti resonat [[tamquam]] [[imago]] Cic. Tusc. 3, 3, la gloire [[est]] comme l’écho de la vertu<br /><b>5</b> portrait, image, copie de qqn : [[Alexis]], [[imago]] Tironis Cic. Att. 12, 10, [[Alexis]], qui [[est]] une réplique de Tiron ; [[filius]] [[tuus]], [[imago]] animi et corporis [[tui]] Cic. Fam. 6, 6, 13, ton fils, qui [[est]] ton image au moral et au physique ; alicujus imaginem ferre Pl. Mil. 151 ; Capt. 39, prendre les traits de qqn, se faire [[passer]] pour qqn || [[explicate]] descriptionem imaginemque tabularum Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 190, déployez la copie et le [[fac]]-similé des registres ; [[imago]] animi [[vultus]] [[est]] Cic. de Or. 3, 221, le visage [[est]] le miroir de l’âme<br /><b>6</b> [au pl.] images des objets [c. simulacra dans Lucrèce] : Cic. Div. 2, 137<br /><b>7</b> comparaison, parabole, apologue : Cic. Inv. 1, 49 ; Hor. S. 2, 3, 320 ; Ep. 1, 7, 34 ; Quint. 6, 1, 28<br /><b>8</b> [fig.] <b> a)</b> image, copie, reproduction : antiquitatis Cic. Sest. 19, une reproduction de l’ancien temps, cf. Cic. Amer. 47 ; Fam. 1, 6, 2 ; 9, 15, 2 ; <b> b)</b> copie, imitation [opp. à la réalité] : virtutis Quint. 10, 1, 16, copie de la vertu ; modestiæ imagine Tac. H. 4, 86, sous le masque de la modestie ; <b> c)</b> ombre, fantôme, apparence : judiciorum Cic. Sest. 30, une ombre de tribunaux ; imaginem [[rei]] publicæ nullam relinquere Cic. Agr. 2, 88, ne pas laisser une ombre de gouvernement, cf. Cic. Off. 3, 69 ; Rep. 2, 52 ; <b> d)</b> représentation par la pensée, évocation, pensée : tristium lætorumque Tac. Ann. 2, 53, évocation de choses tristes et agréables ; magnam noctium partem in imagine tua [[exigo]] Plin. Min. Ep. 7, 5, 1, je passe une [[grande]] partie des nuits à évoquer ton image.
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