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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
sĭgilla: ōrum (sing.: SIGILLVM VOLKANI, Inscr. Marin. Fratr. Arv. p. 357; v. also infra, II.), n.
dim. signum.
I Little figures or images: apposuit patellam, in quā sigilla erant egregia, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 22, § 48: Tyrrhena sigilla, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 180: parva, Lact. 2, 4, 19: perparvula, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 85; Plin. 36, 24, 59, § 183; Ov. A. A. 1, 407: quattuor certamina brevibus distincta sigillis, woven or wrought in, id. M. 6, 86.— Of the figures on seal-rings: sigilla anulo imprimere, Cic. Ac. 2, 26, 86.—
b Transf., a seal, Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 3; Vulg. Apoc. 5, 1; 6, 1 et saep.—*
II In the sing. for signum, a sign, mark, trace, Ven. Vit. S. Mart. 2, 326.
