scaenĭcus — Lewis & Short
scaenĭcus (scen-), a, um, adj., = skhniko/s,
I of or belonging to the stage, scenic, dramatic, theatrical (class.).
I Lit.:
poëtae,dramatic poets, Varr. L. L. 9, § 17 Müll.:
artifices,players, actors, Cic. Arch. 5, 10; Suet. Caes. 84:
actores,Quint. 6, 1, 26; 11, 3, 4: ludi, stage-plays, theatrical representations, in a gen. sense (opp. to games of wrestling, racing, etc.), Liv. 7, 2; 31, 4; 34, 54; Ter. Hec. prol. alt. 37; Suet. Calig. 26; id. Ner. 11; cf.
operae (with gladiatoriae),id. Aug. 43:
fabula,a drama, Amm. 28, 1, 4:
organa,Suet. Ner. 44:
coronae,id. ib. 53:
habitus,id. ib. 38:
gestus,Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 220:
modulatio,Quint. 11, 3, 57:
venustas,Cic. de Or. 3, 8, 30:
decor quidam,Quint. 2, 10, 13:
dicacitas (with scurrilis),id. 6, 3, 29:
fortuna dubia, Ter. Hec. prol. alt. 8: adulteria,represented on the stage, Ov. Tr. 2, 514.—In the neutr.:
quin etiam, quod est inprimis frivolum ac scaenicum, verbum petant (declamatores), quo incipiant,Quint. 10, 7, 21:
nihil scaenicum apud Graecos pudori est,Liv. 24, 24; cf., with a subject-clause:
complodere manus scaenicum est et pectus caedere,Quint. 11, 3, 123.—
B Substt.
1 scaē-nĭcus, i, m., a player, actor, Cic. Off. 1, 31, 114:
orator plurimum aberit a scaenico (with comoedi),Quint. 1, 11, 3; Suet. Ner. 42 fin.—Plur., Cic. Planc. 12, 30; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 79, § 184; Quint. 11, 3, 158; Suet. Tib. 34; id. Ner. 11; 21 et saep.—As a term of reproach applied to Nero (on account of his passion for the stage), a stage-hero, Tac. A. 15, 59.—
2 scaenĭca, ae, f., a female player, an actress, Cod. Just. 5, 27, 1; Ambros. Obit. Valent. § 17.—*
II Transf. (opp. to real, true, actual), fictitious, pretended:
populus Romanus, invictus a veris regibus, ab illo imaginario et scaenico rege (sc. Andrisco) superatur,by that theatrical king, Flor. 2, 14, 4.—* Adv.: scaenĭcē, theatrically, after the manner of players:
cum aliqua velut scaenice fiunt,Quint. 6, 1, 38.