prosopopoeia

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

prŏsōpŏpoeĭa, ae, f.,=προσωποποιΐα.

I Personification , Quint. 6, 1, 25; 1, 8, 3; 4, 1, 69; 11, 1, 41; Isid. 2, 13, 1; 2, 21, 45.—

II A dramatizing : ad prosopopoeias irrumpunt, Quint. 2, 1, 2; 3, 8, 49.

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