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sĭmŭlācrum , i, n. simulo, an image formed in the likeness of a thing,
I.a likeness, image, form, representation, semblance (class.; syn.: imago, effigies, signum).
I. Lit., of images formed by art, reflected in a mirror, or seen in a dream; of apparitions, visions, etc. (the latter mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
b. Adverb.: ad or per simulacrum (like ad similitudinem, formam), in the form of, after the pattern of: “aurata aedes ad simulacrum templi Veneris collocata,Suet. Caes. 84: “ad simulacrum ignium ardens Pharus,id. Flor. 4, 2, 88; cf.: “ad simulacrum caelestium siderum,id. ib. 1, 2, 3: “digiti per litterarum simulacra ducuntur,Sen. Ep. 94, 51.—
2. In the philosoph. lang. of Lucret. (like the Gr. εἴδωλον and the Lat. spectrum), the form or image of an object of sense or thought presented to the mind; a representation, idea, conception, Lucr. 2, 112; 4, 130; 4, 149 sq.—
3. Of mnemonic signs, types, or emblems: “ut res ipsas rerum effigies notaret atque ut locis pro cerā, simulacris pro litteris uteremur,Cic. de Or. 2, 86, 354.—
4. A description, a portraiture of character: “non inseram simulacrum viri copiosi (Catonis), quae dixerit referendo,Liv. 45, 25.—
II. In partic., with the predominant idea of mere imitation (opp. to that which is original or real), a shadow, semblance, appearance, etc.: “simulacrum aliquod ac vestigium civitatis,Cic. Fam. 10, 1, 1; cf.: “simulacra virtutis,id. Off. 1, 15, 46; and: “haec simulacra sunt auspiciorum, auspicia nullo modo,id. Div. 2, 33, 71: “libertatis,Tac. A. 1, 77: “belli simulacra cientes,” i.e. mock-fights, sham-fights, Lucr. 2, 41; 2, 324: “pugnaeque cient simulacra sub armis,Verg. A. 5, 585; 5, 674; Sil. 16, 529; 7, 119; cf.: “simulacrum navalis pugnae,Liv. 26, 51, 6; 35, 26, 2: “quibusdam pugnae simulacris ad verum discrimen aciemque justam consuescimus,Quint. 2, 10, 8; so, “ludicrum pugnae,Liv. 40, 9: “decurrentis exercitūs,id. 44, 9: “vindemiae,Tac. A. 11, 31: “civilitatis particulae,Quint. 2, 15, 25: “inania,id. 10, 5, 17.
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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 10.1.1
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 5.12.7
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 6.16
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.2.159
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.5.185
    • Cicero, For Archias, 12.30
    • Cicero, Divinatio against Q. Caecilius, 1.3
    • Cicero, Against Piso, 25.60
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 9, 44
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 10.694
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.112
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.432
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 10.14
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.435
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.172
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.232
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.772
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 5.585
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.477
    • Suetonius, Divus Julius, 84
    • Caesar, Civil War, 2.5
    • Tacitus, Annales, 11.31
    • Tacitus, Annales, 1.77
    • Tacitus, Annales, 2.41
    • Tacitus, Annales, 12.22
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 2.3
    • Plautus, Mostellaria, 1.2
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 2.86
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.41
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.1099
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.99
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.1060
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.123
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.112
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.324
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.130
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.149
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.995
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.308
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.75
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.419
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 5.36
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 7.27.7
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 44, 9
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 41, 28.10
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 40, 9
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 26, 51.6
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 45, 25
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 24, 16
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 35, 26.2
    • Cicero, De Republica, 3.9
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 2.33
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 1.15
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2, 15.25
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2, 10.8
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 10, 5.17
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 94.51
    • Cicero, De Inventione, 2.1
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