fā^brĭcor — Lewis & Short
fā^brĭcor, ātus, 1 (archaic
I 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.
I Lit.
(a) 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.—
(b) 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.—
II Transf., in gen., to prepare, form, fashion.
(a) 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 e)nargei/a, 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.—
(b) 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.