I.made of clay, earthen, fictile.
I. Adj.: “si id in ceris fingeretur aut fictilibus figuris,” Cic. N. D. 1, 26, 71: “Summanus,” id. Div. 1, 10, 16: “vasa,” id. Att. 6, 1, 13: “pocula,” Tib. 1, 1, 39: “dolia,” Plin. 35, 12, 46, § 158: olla rudis fictilis, Varr. ap. Non. p. 223.—Jestingly applied to labelled wine-bottles: “ibi tu videas litteratas fictiles epistolas, Pice signatas,” Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 14.—
A. An earthen vessel: “balsamum novo fictili conditur,” Plin. 12, 25, 54, § 116; 29, 6, 39, § 134: “omnia fictilibus (ponuntur),” Ov. M. 8, 670; Juv. 3, 168; 10, 26.—
B. Earthen figures of deities: “antefixa fictilia deorum Romanorum,” Liv. 34, 4, 4; cf. Plin. 34, 7, 16, § 34; 35, 12, 45, § 157.