effĭgĭes — Lewis & Short
effĭgĭes, ēi (ante-class. form
I 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).
I (Class.) With the accessory idea of resemblance obtained by imitation, a likeness, portrait, image, effigy.
A 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. —
2 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.—
B 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.—
II 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.