imago

imāgō inis, f

2 IC-, an imitation, copy, image, representation, likeness, statue, bust, picture : tabularum, exact copy : cereae, H.: macra, Iu.: genetiva, natural figure , O.: sine imagine tellus, shapeless , O.— An ancestral image, mask (of a man who had been aedile, praetor, or consul): ius imaginis: avi tui: clarum hac fore imagine, i. e. would become an aristocrat , L.: fumosae, smoky ancestral images : nullae sunt imagines, quae, etc., ancestors of distinction : imagines non habeo, S.: imagines familiae suae: homo multarum imaginum, S.: funus imagines ducant triumphales tuum, H.— A phantom, ghost, apparition, vision : magna mei sub terras ibit imago, shade , V.: vana, H.: inhumani coniugis, V.: natum falsis Ludis imaginibus, phantoms , V.: mortis, O.: somni, a dream , O.: nocturnae, Tb.— A reverberation, echo : resonare tamquam imago: vocis offensa resultat imago, V.: iocosa montis, H.—Fig., an image, conception, thought, imagination, idea : Scipionis imaginem sibi proponere: antiquitatis, an image of the olden time : proconsularem imaginem tam saevam facere (i. e. by cruelty in office), L.: tantae pietatis, V.: poenaeque in imagine tota est, O.— A figure of speech, similitude, comparison , C.: haec a te non multum abludit imago, H.— An empty form, image, semblance, appearance, shadow : adumbrata gloriae: equitis Romani: rei p.: his imaginibus iuris spretis, L.— A reminder, suggestion : quorum (temporum) imaginem video in rebus tuis: genitoris imagine capta, V.