I.“diadema, dogma, etc.,” Prisc. p. 679 P.), and (mostly post-Aug.) ătis, n. (dat. and abl. plur. schemasin, Varr. ap. Charis. p. 38; “but schematibus,” Lampr. Heliog. 19), = σχῆμα.
I. In gen., a shape, figure, form, fashion, manner, posture, attitude, etc. (so mostly ante-class.; not in Cic.).
(α).
Fem.: “quod processi huc cum servili schemā,” Plaut. Am. prol. 117; cf. Caecil. ap. Prisc. p. 679 P.: “Tiara ut lepidam lepide condecorat schemam,” Plaut. Pers. 4, 2, 2 Ritschl; cf. Prisc. l. l.; also Pompon. ap. Non. 225, 1: “exemplar imperatae schemae,” Suet. Tib. 43.—
(β).
Neutr.: pergite thyrsigerae Bacchae modo Bacchico cum schemate, Naev. ap. Non. 225, 2: “schema antiquom retinere,” Lucil. ib. 225, 3: “Aristippus naufragio cum ejectus ad Rhodiensium litus animadvertisset geometrica schemata descripta,” Vitr. 6 praef.: “vasa schematibus libidinosissimis inquinata,” Lampr. Heliog. 19.—
II. In partic., as in rhet., a figure of speech, rhetorical figure (pure Lat. figura; freq. in Quint.; “in Cic. written as Greek),” Sen. Contr. 1, praef. § 23 sq.; 1, 1, 25; Quint. 9, 1, 1 sq.; and repeatedly in the first three chapters of the ninth book; cf. also id. 1, 5, 52 sq.; 4, 1, 49; 4, 5, 4; 5, 10, 70.—
b. In geometry, a figure, outline: “geometrica schemata,” Vitr. 6, praef. 1: “sphaeroides,” id. 8, 6, 3 et saep.
