Sigillaria

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Sĭgillārĭa, ōrum, ibus and iis, n. [sigilla].

I The last days of the Saturnalia , in which people made each other presents , especially of little images; the feast of images , Macr. S. 1, 10 fin. ; 1, 11; Tiber. ap. Suet. Claud. 5; Spart. Carac. 1 fin. (called by Aus. Eclog. Fer. Rom. 52, festa sigillorum; and by Lucil. ap. Porph. Hor. S. 1, 5, 87, Servorum festus).—

II Transf.

A The little images presented on the Sigillaria: alicui sigillaria afferre, Sen. Ep. 12, 3 (called sigillaricia, Spart. Hadr. 17).—

2 Images of the gods : adoratis sigillaribus suis, Tert. Or. 12; Arn. 6, 197; 6, 199.—

B A place in Rome where these little images were sold , the image-market , Suet. Claud. 16 fin. ; id. Ner. 28; Gell. 5, 4, 1; abl. Sigillaribus, Dig. 32, 1, 102: Sigillariis, Gell. 2, 3, 5.

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