fabricor

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fā̆brĭcor, ātus, 1 (archaic inf. fabricarier, Poëta ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 159), v. dep. a., and ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose) făbrĭ-co, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [fabrica], to make out of wood, stone, metal, etc., to frame, forge, construct, build.

Lit.

Form fabricor: heu Mulciber, arma ignavo es invictā fabricatus manu, Att. ap. Macr. S. 6, 5 (Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 208):

ii, qui signa fabricantur,

Cic. Off. 1, 41, 147:

Capitolii fastigium,

id. de Or. 3, 46, 180:

gladium, id. Rab. Post, 3, 7: Jovi fulmen,

id. Div. 2, 19, 43:

naves,

Tac. A. 14, 29:

pontes et scalas fabricati,

id. ib. 4, 51:

(mundum) globosum est fabricatus,

Cic. Univ. 6 Orell. N. cr. et saep.—

Form fabrico:

hunc (cratera) fabricaverat Alcon,

Ov. M. 13, 683; cf.:

pugnabant armis, quae post fabricaverat usus,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 102:

ratem,

Phaedr. 4, 6, 9:

fabricavit deceris Liburnicas,

Suet. Calig. 37:

vasa fabricabis,

Vulg. Exod. 27, 3; id. Num. 32, 16 al.—In pass.:

fabricata fago pocula,

carved, made, Ov. M. 8, 670; cf.:

simulacra ex auro vel argento fabricata,

cast, molten, Suet. Ner. 32:

in amphitheatro ligneo intra anni spatium fabricato,

built, id. ib. 12:

tela reponuntur manibus fabricata Cyclopum,

forged, Ov. M. 1, 259; cf. Quint. 2, 16, 6; 3, 2, 2; Vell. 2, 79, 2:

in nostros fabricata est machina muros,

Verg. A. 2, 46: di qui hominis manu fabricati sunt, Vulg. Deut. 4, 28 et saep.—

Transf., in gen., to prepare, form, fashion.

Form fabricor:

hoc affirmare potes, Luculle, esse aliquam vim cum prudentia et consilio scilicet, quae finxerit, vel, ut tuo verbo utar, quae fabricata sit hominem?

Cic. Ac. 2, 27, 87; cf.:

quanto quasi artificio natura fabricata esset primum animal omne, deinde hominem maxime,

id. ib. 2, 10, 30:

opus est fabricanda ad fulmina nubi,

Lucr. 6, 365 Lachm. N. cr.; imitated:

fabricantes fulmina nubes,

Manil. 1, 853:

ut ea ipsa dii immortales ad usum hominum fabricati paene videantur,

Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 4; cf. id. de Or. 3, 45, 178:

prandium opipare,

App. M. 7, p. 192, 31: quod nihil esset clarius enargeia, ut Graeci:

(perspicuitatem aut evidentiam nos, si placet, nominemus fabricemurque, si opus erit, verba), etc.,

Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 17:

fabricare quidvis, quidvis comminiscere,

Plaut. As. 1, 1, 89; cf.:

compara, fabricare, finge quod lubet,

id. Bacch. 4, 4, 42. — Absol.:

age modo, fabricamini,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 52.—

Form fabrico:

philosophia animum format et fabricat,

Sen. Ep. 16, 3:

qui fabricaverat illum (Platonem),

Manil. 1, 772:

ne fabricate moras,

Sil. 16, 671.—In pass.:

dum illa verba fabricentur et memoriae insidant,

Quint. 10, 7, 2.

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