figūra ae, f
FIG-,
a form, shape, figure
: nova oris, T.: corporis nostri: hominis: uri sunt specie et figurā tauri,
Cs.: partim figuras Rettulit antiquas,
animal forms
, O.: muliebris: navium, Cs.:
Morte obitā quales fama est volitare figuras,
phantoms
, V.—
Beauty
: fallax, O.: confisa
figurae, O.—Fig.,
a quality, kind, form, style, nature, manner
: optima dicendi: pereundi mille
figurae<*>
ways
, O.—In rhet.,
a figure of speech, ornament of style
: dicendi: tres figurae (orationis).