fictilis

fictilis
fictĭlis, e, adj. [fictus, from fingo], made of clay, earthen, fictile.
I.
Adj.:

si id in ceris fingeretur aut fictilibus figuris,

 Cic. N. D. 1, 26, 71:

Summanus,

 id. Div. 1, 10, 16:

vasa,

 id. Att. 6, 1, 13:

pocula,

 Tib. 1, 1, 39:

dolia,

 Plin. 35, 12, 46, § 158: olla rudis fictilis, Varr. ap. Non. p. 223.—Jestingly applied to labelled wine-bottles:

ibi tu videas litteratas fictiles epistolas, Pice signatas,

 Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 14.—
II.
Subst.: fic-tĭle, is, and more freq. in plur., fictĭlĭa, ĭum, n.
A.
An earthen vessel:

balsamum novo fictili conditur,

 Plin. 12, 25, 54, § 116; 29, 6, 39, § 134:

omnia fictilibus (ponuntur),

 Ov. M. 8, 670; Juv. 3, 168; 10, 26.—
B.
Earthen figures of deities:

antefixa fictilia deorum Romanorum,

 Liv. 34, 4, 4; cf. Plin. 34, 7, 16, § 34; 35, 12, 45, § 157.

Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. . 2011.

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