effingo

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to form, fashion, make / duplicate, copy.

ef-fingo, finxi, fictum, 3, v. a., orig., to work out by pressing = fingendo exprimere, ekmassein (v. fingo).—Hence,

To form, fashion (artistically—class.; most freq. in the trop. sense; cf.: formo, informo, conformo, fingo, reddo, instituo, etc.).

Lit.:

oris lineamenta in tabula: Veneris Coae pulchritudinem aspersione fortuita,

Cic. Div. 1, 13, 23:

sui dissimilia,

id. N. D. 3, 9, 23:

deum imagines in species hominum,

Tac. H. 5, 5 et saep.— Poet.:

(Daedalus) casus alicujus in auro,

Verg. A. 6, 32; cf. id. ib. 10, 640; Luc. 5, 713:

horrentes effingens crine galeros,

Sil. 1, 404.—

Trop., to express, represent, portray:

(natura) speciem ita formavit oris, ut in ea penitus reconditos mores effingeret,

Cic. Leg. 1, 9; cf. id. Rosc. Am. 16, 47; id. de Or. 2, 43 fin.; Tac. A. 11, 14; Quint. 6, 2, 17:

oratorem effingere (connected with corpora fingendo efficere),

id. 5, 12, 21:

effinge aliquid et excude (sc. scribendo), quod sit perpetuo tuum,

Plin. Ep. 1, 3, 4:

imaginem virtutis,

to represent by imitation, Quint. 10, 2, 15; cf. id. 10, 1, 108; 11, 3, 89 sq.; Plin. Ep. 9, 22, 2.—Of the conception of external objects:

visum impressum effictumque ex eo, unde esset,

id. Ac. 2, 6, 18; cf. id. Tusc. 1, 25, 61; id. de Or. 2, 86 fin. —

To wipe clean, wipe out (only in the foll. passages):

fiscinas spongia effingat,

Cato R. R. 67, 2 (for which: fiscinas spongia tergendas, Plin. 15, 6, 6, § 22):

spongiis sanguinem,

Cic. Sest. 35 fin., v. Halm ad h. l.—

To rub gently, stroke:

manus,

Albin. Cons. ad Liv. 138; Ov. H. 20, 134 (for which: manus fingere, id. F. 5, 409).

effĭgĭes, ēi (ante-class. form nom.:

effĭgĭa,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 4, 7; Afran. ap. Non. 493, 2; Inscr. Orell. 7416 l.— Nom. plur.:

effigiae,

Lucr. 4, 105.— Acc. plur.:

effigias,

id. 4, 42 and 85), f. [effingo, I.], an (artistic) copy, imitation of an object (in concreto— for syn. cf.: imago, pictura, simulacrum, signum, statua, tabula).

(Class.) With the accessory idea of resemblance obtained by imitation, a likeness, portrait, image, effigy.

Lit.:

formarum,

Lucr. 4, 105; cf. id. ib. 42 and 85: Veneris, * Plaut. Rud. 2, 4, 7; cf.:

deus effigies hominis et imago,

Cic. N. D. 1, 37, 103:

quandam effigiem spirantis mortui,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 1; cf. also: simulacrum deae (Veneris) non effigie humana, Tac. H. 2, 3 fin.; and:

quam satus Iapeto... Finxit in effigiem moderantum cuncta deorum,

Ov. M. 1, 83:

vix convenire videretur, quem ipsum hominem cuperent evertere, ejus effigiem simulacrumque servare,

his mere effigy, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 65 fin.:

effigiem Xanthi Trojamque videtis,

Verg. A. 3, 497; of shades, ghosts:

effigiem nullo cum corpore falsi finxit apri,

Ov. M. 14, 358; Sil. 13, 778; cf.:

effigies, immo umbrae hominum,

Liv. 21, 40, 9;

of the shade of a deceased person in a dream,

Plin. Ep. 3, 5, 4;

or in the lower world,

Sil. 13, 779. —

Adv.: in or ad effigiem or effigie, after the likeness of, in the form of, like, Sil. 5, 5; Plin. 5, 10, 11, § 62; 21, 5, 11, § 23.—

Trop. (a favorite expression of Cic.):

perfectae eloquentiae speciem animo videmus, effigiem auribus quaerimus,

its imitation, Cic. Or. 3 (v. the passage in connection); cf.:

consiliorum ac virtutum effigiem relinquere,

id. Arch. 12, 30:

Sex. Peducaeus reliquit effigiem et humanitatis et probitatis suae filium,

the image, id. Fin. 2, 18, 58; cf. id. Tusc. 3, 2; id. de Or. 1, 43, 193; Liv. 26, 41; 1, 56:

ad effigiem justi imperii scriptus,

the ideal, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8:

ut res ipsas rerum effigies notaret,

id. de Or. 2, 86 fin.; cf.

effingo, I. B.: ostensus est in alia effigie,

appeared in another form, Vulg. Marc. 16, 12.—

Poet. and in post-Aug. prose, in gen., the plastic (less freq. the pictorial) representation of an object, an image, statue, portrait: saxea ut effigies bacchantis, * Cat. 64, 61; Verg. A. 2, 167; 184; 3, 148; 7, 177; Hor. S. 1, 8, 30; Ov. H. 20, 239; Tac. A. 1, 74; 6, 2; id. H. 5, 9 al.; Quint. 6, 1, 32; cf. id. 12, 10, 5; Ov. Tr. 1, 7, 7; Vulg. Sap. 15, 4.