fictor

fictor, ōris, m. [fingo], one who makes images of clay, wood, wax, etc., an imagemaker, statuary.

I.

(Syn.: pictor, scalptor, sculptor, plastes, statuarius.) Lit.

A.

In gen.:

deos ea facie novimus, qua pictores fictoresque voluerunt,

Cic. N. D. 1, 29, 81; id. Fragm. ap. Lact. 2, 8, p. 120 Bip.—

B.

In partic. in relig. lang., a baker of offering-cakes:

apud Ennium: Libaque, fictores, Argeos et tutulatos... Fictores dicti a fingendis libis,

Varr. L. L. 7, § 44 Müll. (cf. Ann. v. 124 ed. Vahl.); so Inscr. Orell. 934; 2281; 2458; cf. Cic. Dom. 54, 139. —

2.

A maker, creator, Vulg. Isa. 29, 16; 45, 9.—

II.

Trop.

A.

In gen., a maker, former (Plautin.):

(fortunae)... vitae agundae,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 85 sq.:

omnium Legum atque jurium,

id. Ep. 3, 4, 86:

somniorum,

Vulg. Deut. 13, 5.—

B.

In partic., a feigner:

fandi fictor Ulixes,

a master of deceit, Verg. A. 9, 602.