I.inf. fabricarier, Poëta ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 159), v. dep. a., and (poet. and in post-Aug. prose) făbrĭ-co , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. fabrica, to make out of wood, stone, metal, etc., to frame, forge, construct, build.
I. Lit.
(α).
Form fabricor: heu Mulciber, arma ignavo es invictā fabricatus manu, Att. ap. Macr. S. 6, 5 (Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 208): “ii, qui signa fabricantur,” Cic. Off. 1, 41, 147: “Capitolii fastigium,” id. de Or. 3, 46, 180: “gladium, id. Rab. Post, 3, 7: Jovi fulmen,” id. Div. 2, 19, 43: “naves,” Tac. A. 14, 29: “pontes et scalas fabricati,” id. ib. 4, 51: “(mundum) globosum est fabricatus,” Cic. Univ. 6 Orell. N. cr. et saep.—
(β).
Form fabrico: “hunc (cratera) fabricaverat Alcon,” Ov. M. 13, 683; cf.: “pugnabant armis, quae post fabricaverat usus,” Hor. S. 1, 3, 102: “ratem,” Phaedr. 4, 6, 9: “fabricavit deceris Liburnicas,” Suet. Calig. 37: “vasa fabricabis,” Vulg. Exod. 27, 3; id. Num. 32, 16 al.—In pass.: “fabricata fago pocula,” carved, made, Ov. M. 8, 670; cf.: “simulacra ex auro vel argento fabricata,” cast, molten, Suet. Ner. 32: “in amphitheatro ligneo intra anni spatium fabricato,” built, id. ib. 12: “tela reponuntur manibus fabricata Cyclopum,” forged, Ov. M. 1, 259; cf. Quint. 2, 16, 6; 3, 2, 2; Vell. 2, 79, 2: “in nostros fabricata est machina muros,” Verg. A. 2, 46: di qui hominis manu fabricati sunt, Vulg. Deut. 4, 28 et saep.—
II. Transf., in gen., to prepare, form, fashion.
(α).
Form fabricor: “hoc affirmare potes, Luculle, esse aliquam vim cum prudentia et consilio scilicet, quae finxerit, vel, ut tuo verbo utar, quae fabricata sit hominem?” Cic. Ac. 2, 27, 87; cf.: “quanto quasi artificio natura fabricata esset primum animal omne, deinde hominem maxime,” id. ib. 2, 10, 30: “opus est fabricanda ad fulmina nubi,” Lucr. 6, 365 Lachm. N. cr.; imitated: “fabricantes fulmina nubes,” Manil. 1, 853: “ut ea ipsa dii immortales ad usum hominum fabricati paene videantur,” Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 4; cf. id. de Or. 3, 45, 178: “prandium opipare,” App. M. 7, p. 192, 31: quod nihil esset clarius ἐναργεία, ut Graeci: “(perspicuitatem aut evidentiam nos, si placet, nominemus fabricemurque, si opus erit, verba), etc.,” Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 17: “fabricare quidvis, quidvis comminiscere,” Plaut. As. 1, 1, 89; cf.: “compara, fabricare, finge quod lubet,” id. Bacch. 4, 4, 42. —Absol.: “age modo, fabricamini,” Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 52.—
(β).
Form fabrico: “philosophia animum format et fabricat,” Sen. Ep. 16, 3: “qui fabricaverat illum (Platonem),” Manil. 1, 772: “ne fabricate moras,” Sil. 16, 671.—In pass.: “dum illa verba fabricentur et memoriae insidant,” Quint. 10, 7, 2.
