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sigilla

sigilla · n

Little figures

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Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Epistulae 2 · 2.02/10k
De Architectura 7 · 1.21/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
In C. Verrem 2 · 0.2/10k

What it meant

sĭgilla — Lewis & Short

sĭgilla, ōrum (n.dim.signum.

sing.: SIGILLVM VOLKANI, Inscr. Marin. Fratr. Arv. p. 357; v. also infra, II.),

I Little figures or images: apposuit patellam, in quā sigilla erant egregia, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 22, § 48: Tyrrhena sigilla, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 180: parva, Lact. 2, 4, 19: perparvula, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 85; Plin. 36, 24, 59, § 183; Ov. A. A. 1, 407: quattuor certamina brevibus distincta sigillis, woven or wrought in, id. M. 6, 86.— Of the figures on seal-rings: sigilla anulo imprimere, Cic. Ac. 2, 26, 86.—

b Transf., a seal, Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 3; Vulg. Apoc. 5, 1; 6, 1 et saep.—*

II In the sing. for signum, a sign, mark, trace, Ven. Vit. S. Mart. 2, 326.

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