I.a falsely assumed appearance, a false show, feigning, shamming, pretence, feint, insincerity, deceit, hypocrisy, simulation, etc. (class. and very freq.; cf. imitatio).
(α).
With gen.: “simulatio insaniae,” Cic. Off. 3, 26, 97: “stultitiae,” id. Brut. 14, 53: “imitatio simulatioque virtutis,” id. Ac. 2, 46, 140; id. Att. 7, 1, 6: “omnium rerum,” id. Lael. 25, 92: “timoris,” Caes. B. G. 5, 50 fin.; id. B. C. 2, 40: “itineris,” id. B. G. 6, 8: “deditionis,” id. B. C. 3, 28: “vulnerum,” id. ib. 2, 35: “rei frumentariae,” id. B. G. 1, 40; cf.: legis agrariae (with nomen), Cic. Agr. 2, 6, 15: rei publicae, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 5: “Parthici belli,” Caes. B. C. 1, 9.—Esp., abl. adverb., under prelext of, under pretence of, etc.: “amicitiae,” Cic. Lael. 8, 26: “muliones equitum specie ac simulatione collibus circumvehi jubet,” Caes. B. G. 7, 45; cf.: “gladiatores emtos esse Fausti simulatione ad caedem ac tumultum,” as was pretended for Faustus, Cic. Sull. 19, 54: “pro sociis contra hostīs exercitum mittere, an hostium simulatione contra socios,” id. Imp. Pomp. 22, 66: “provocare arma Romana simulatione numinum ausus est,” under pretence of a divine command, Tac. H. 2, 61. —Similarly: “per simulationem, cum simulatione: per simulationem amicitiae me nefarie prodiderunt,” Cic. Red. Quir. 9, 21: “cum simulatione timoris agere,” Caes. B. G. 5, 50.—
(β).
Absol.: “ex omni vitā simulatio dissimulatioque tollenda est,” Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61: “simulatio et inanis ostentatio,” id. ib. 2, 12, 43: “in specie fictae simulationis, pietas inesse non potest,” id. N. D. 1, 2, 3: “nihil ut opus sit simulatione et fallaciis,” id. de Or. 2, 46, 191; so (with perfidia) Caes. B. G. 4, 13: “non mea'st simulatio,” Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 34; cf.: “optima est simulatio contra simulantem,” Quint. 6, 3, 92: “nihil simulatio proficit,” Sen. Ep. 79, 18.—Plur.: “illa simulationum nescia,” Tac. A. 4, 54: “simulationum falsa,” id. ib. 6, 45; 6, 54; Plin. Pan. 72 fin.—
II. Rhet. t. t.: εἰρωνεία est simulatio, Mart. Cap. 5, § 523.
