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fictĭlis , e, adj. fictus, from fingo,
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.—
II. Subst.: fic-tĭle , is, and more freq. in plur., fictĭlĭa , ĭum, n.
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.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 6.1.13
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.670
    • Plautus, Poenulus, 4.2
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 34.34
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 34, 4.4
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 1.26
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 1.10
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