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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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|georg=imāgo, inis, f. (vgl. [[aemulus]]), das [[Bild]], [[Bildnis]] [[als]] Nachbildung, das [[Abbild]], griech. [[εἰκών]], [[bes]]. [[ein]] Brustbild, I) [[objektiv]], A) eig.: 1) [[als]] [[Werk]] der [[Plastik]] od. der [[Malerei]]: a) im allg.: [[imago]] ficta alcis, [[Büste]], Cic.: [[imago]] picta, [[Gemälde]] ([[Porträt]]), gemaltes Brustbild, Plin. u. Cic.: huius facti picta [[imago]], Val. Max.: in [[bibliotheca]] sua ponere imagines municipum suorum, Plin. ep.: [[als]] [[Bild]] jmds. im Steine [[des]] Siegelrings, est [[signum]] notum, [[imago]] avi tui, Cic.: imagines deûm, Götterbilder, Tac.: deorum, die Penatenbilder, Ascon.: [[imago]] [[cerea]], Wachspuppe, Hor. [[sat]]. 1, 8, 43. – dah. [[auch]] der [[Bauriß]], Stat. silv. 3, 1, 117; vgl. Plin. 28, 15. – b) insbes., imagines (maiorum), die Bilder der Vorfahren, Ahnenbilder, Wachsmasken [[nach]] dem [[Leben]] geformt (dah. [[auch]] cerae [[gen]].), die aufzustellen [[nur]] die das [[Recht]] hatten, die [[ein]] kurulisches [[Amt]], [[also]] [[von]] der Äbilität an [[aufwärts]], verwaltet hatten. Diese imagines wurden in tempelartigen Schränken ([[armaria]]), die im Atrium an der [[Wand]] angebracht waren (dah. fumosae imagines, Cic. Pis. 1. Sen. ep. 44, 5), aufbewahrt, jede [[imago]] [[mit]] einem Lorbeerkranze geschmückt, und [[unter]] [[jeder]] [[imago]] stand [[als]] [[Aufschrift]] ([[titulus]]) der [[Name]] [[des]] Verstorbenen, seine Würden u. seine Verdienste; die einzelnen imagines waren [[durch]] Laubgewinde verbunden, die an festlichen Tagen [[samt]] den Lorbeerkränzen erneut wurden, s. [[Sen]]. de ben. 3, 28, 2. Plin. 35, 6. Tac. dial. 8. Bei feierlichen Leichenzügen wurden die imagines der [[Leiche]] in der [[Art]] vorgetragen, daß Menschen, die in [[Größe]] u. übriger [[Figur]] den vorzustellenden Personen glichen, diese Wachsmasken [[vor]] das [[Gesicht]] nahmen u. in der jedem zukommenden [[Tracht]] [[nebst]] allen gebührenden Insignien [[vor]] dem [[lectus]] einherzogen, Hor. epod. 8, 11. Plin. 35, 6 sqq. Prop. 2, 13, 19. Suet. Cal. 23, 1. Vgl. Marquardt [[Privatleben]]² 1, 241 ff.<br />'''2)''' [[als]] natürliches [[Abbild]] in körperlicher u. geistiger [[Hinsicht]], a) übh.: [[hic]], [[qui]] [[adest]], [[imago]] animi et corporis tui, constantissimus [[atque]] [[optimus]] [[filius]] [[tuus]], Cic.: en iuvenem, inquit, effigiem [[atque]] imaginem [[eius]], quem etc., Liv.: [[Alexis]] [[imago]] Tironis, das [[Ebenbild]], [[Seitenstück]], Cic.: imaginem belli [[navalis]] agitare, [[ein]] [[Seemanöver]] [[abhalten]], [[Flor]].: imaginem alcis ferre, jmds. [[Abbild]] [[tragen]] = jmds. [[Gestalt]] [[angenommen]] [[haben]], [[sich]] [[für]] jmd. [[ausgeben]], Plaut. mil. 151. Auct. prol. Plaut. Amph. 141 u. capt. 39. – [[imago]] animi [[vultus]] est, indices oculi, Cic.: [[imago]] solis, lunae, das [[Abbild]], der [[Widerschein]], Lucr. u. Verg. – b) das schriftliche [[Nachbild]], [[explicate]] descriptionem imaginemque tabularum, die [[Abschrift]] u. das [[Nachbild]] = die getreue [[Abschrift]], Cic. Verr. 2, 190.<br />'''3)''' ([[wie]] [[εἴδωλον]]) v. [[Schatten]]-, [[Traum]]- u. Phantasiebildern, a) = [[Schattenbild]], [[Schatten]] der Abgeschiedenen, imagines mortuorum, Cic.: magna mei [[sub]] terras ibit [[imago]], Verg.: in somnis inhumati venit [[imago]] coniugis, Verg.: [[semper]] tua dicar [[imago]], [[dein]] dich liebender [[Schatten]], Prop.: [[num]] (al. [[non]]) vanae redeat [[sanguis]] imagini, dem körperlosen Sch., Hor. carm. 1, 24, 15 (vgl. no. b). – b) = [[Traumbild]], [[imago]] somni od. noctis, Ov.: imagines somniorum, Suet.: nocturnae imagines, Tibull.: nocturnae quietis [[imago]], Tac.: [[imago]] vana, [[Trugbild]], Hor. carm. 3, 27, 40 sq. (vgl. no. a): decipior melioris imagine somni, Ov. – c) = [[Gespenst]], Plin. ep. 7, 27, 6. – d) ([[wie]] [[simulacrum]] [[bei]] Lukrez) [[als]] t. t. der epikureischen [[Philos]]. = das dem Geiste vorschwebende [[Abbild]] eines gesehenen [[oder]] gedachten Gegenstandes, s. [[Cic]]. de div. 2, 137.<br />'''4)''' das [[Echo]] [[als]] [[Nachahmung]] der [[Stimme]], [[ubi]] [[non]] resonant imagines, [[Varro]]: alternae [[deceptus]] imagine [[vocis]], Ov.: [[cuius]] recinet iocosa [[nomen]] [[imago]], Hor.: [[laus]] bonorum virtuti resonat [[tamquam]] [[imago]], Cic.<br />'''5)''' das Wortbild, die [[Parabel]] ([[παραβολή]]), die [[Fabel]], hāc [[ego]] si compellor imagine, Hor.: [[haec]] a te [[non]] [[multum]] abludit [[imago]] ([[Fabel]] [[von]] den Fröschen), Hor.: solebat [[Attalus]] hāc imagine [[uti]]: Vidisti [[aliquando]] canem etc., Sen. ep. 72, 8: [[invenio]] imagines, Sen. ep. 59, 6. Vgl. Cornif. rhet. 4, 62. Cic. de inv. 1, 49.<br />'''B)''' übtr.: 1) im allg.: [[haec]] conficta [[arbitror]] a poëtis [[esse]], ut effictos nostros [[mores]] in alienis personis expressamque imaginem nostrae vitae cotidianae videremus, [[ein]] treues [[Abbild]] (= eine treue [[Darstellung]]), Cic.: [[recordatio]] meorum temporum, quorum imaginem [[video]] in rebus tuis, Cic.<br />'''2)''' insbes., im Ggstz. zur [[Wirklichkeit]] = das [[Scheinbild]], [[Schattenbild]], [[Trugbild]], [[Phantom]], der [[Schein]], a) übh., Quint. 10, 1, 16; 10, 5, 17. – b) [[mit]] dem Nebenbegr. [[des]] Täuschenden, Pompeium imagine [[pacis]], Lepidum [[specie]] amicitiae deceptos, Tac.: deceptum imagine [[decoris]], [[durch]] [[ein]] [[Trugbild]] der [[Ehre]], Liv.: [[biduum]] imagine cognitionis absumptum, [[mit]] dem Scheine usw., Tac.: [[tamquam]] [[imago]] servitii, Tac.: misera et ingrata [[imago]] industriae, [[Schein]] [[von]] [[Tätigkeit]] (den [[man]] [[sich]] gibt), Plin. ep.: his [[quoque]] imaginibus iuris spretis, Trugbilder (Vorspiegelungen) eines rechtlichen Verfahrens, Liv. – c) [[mit]] dem Nbbegr. [[des]] Wesenlosen, der [[Schatten]], si [[denique]] imaginem iudiciorum [[aut]] [[simulacrum]] aliquod futurum [[reliquum]] credidisset, Cic.: imaginem [[rei]] publicae nullam reliquerunt, keinen [[Schatten]], keine [[Spur]], Cic.: imaginem [[urbis]] [[magis]], [[quam]] urbem fecerat, [[Flor]].: [[umbra]] et [[imago]] equitis [[Romani]], [[Schatten]] und leerer [[Name]], Cic.: [[imago]] tribuniciae potestatis [[sine]] vi, Vell.<br />'''II)''' [[subjektiv]]: 1) das [[Bild]], in dem [[sich]] [[etwas]] unsern Blicken darstellt = der [[Anblick]], die [[Erscheinung]], im. venientis Turni, Verg.: plurima mortis [[imago]], [[häufig]] bot [[sich]] das [[Bild]]-, der [[Anblick]] [[des]] Todes dar, Verg.: exercitum imagine caesorum insepultorum tardatum ad proelia, Tac.: [[varia]] pereuntium [[forma]] et omni imagine mortium, in jeglicher [[Gestalt]] der [[Tod]] zu [[schauen]], Tac.<br />'''2)''' die [[Vorstellung]], die [[man]] [[von]] [[etwas]] hat [[oder]] [[sich]] macht, der lebhafte [[Gedanke]] an [[etwas]], ponti [[tristis]] [[imago]], Ov.: tantae [[caedis]] [[imago]], Ov. – si te nulla movet tantae pietatis [[imago]], Verg.: es [[tumidus]] genitoris imagine falsi, Ov.: poenae in imagine tota est, beschäftigt [[sich]] [[ganz]] [[mit]] dem Gedanken an die (zu vollziehende) [[Strafe]], Ov.: tua (an dich), [[pater]] Druse, [[imago]], Tac.

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