Meaning of simulacrum | Babel Free

Definitions

1. image, likeness, statue, effigy, portrait
   declension-2
2. specter, ghost, phantom; mimicry, imitation
   declension-2

Equivalents

Examples

“Dūcendum ad sēdēs simulācrum ōrandaque dīvae / nūmina conclāmant.”

“[The Trojans] cried out: ‘The effigy [of the horse] must be taken to the temple of the goddess, and [we] must entreat her divine favor.’”

“Aliī dīcunt Orestem, cum Diānae Facelītidis simulācrum raptum ex Scythiā adveheret et ad Siciliam esset tempestāte dēlātus, complētō annō Diānae fēstum celebrāsse hymnīs, collēctīs nautīs suīs et aliquibus pāstōribus convocātīs, et exinde permānsisse apud rūsticōs cōnsuētūdinem.”

Others say that Orestes, when he was taking the figure of Taurian Diana from Scythia and was carried off to Sicily by a storm, he venerated her an entire year with hymns, with his sailors collected and some shepherds summoned, and that from there did the custom remain among the country-dwellers.

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