figura

figūra ae, f

FIG-, a form, shape, figure : nova oris, T.: corporis nostri: hominis: uri sunt specie et figurā tauri, Cs.: partim figuras Rettulit antiquas, animal forms , O.: muliebris: navium, Cs.: Morte obitā quales fama est volitare figuras, phantoms , V.— Beauty : fallax, O.: confisa figurae, O.—Fig., a quality, kind, form, style, nature, manner : optima dicendi: pereundi mille figurae, ways , O.—In rhet., a figure of speech, ornament of style : dicendi: tres figurae (orationis).