noun
sĭgilla
Meaning
- Little figures
sĭgilla, ōrum (sing.: SIGILLVM VOLKANI, Inscr. Marin. Fratr. Arv. p. 357; v. also infra, II.), n. dim. signum.
I. Little figures or images:
apposuit patellam, in quā sigilla erant egregia, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 22, § 48: Tyrrhena sigilla, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 180: parva, Lact. 2, 4, 19: perparvula, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 85; Plin. 36, 24, 59, § 183; Ov. A. A. 1, 407: quattuor certamina brevibus distincta sigillis, woven or wrought in, id. M. 6, 86.— Of the figures on seal-rings: sigilla anulo imprimere, Cic. Ac. 2, 26, 86.—Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
sigilla ōrum, n dim.
signum, small statues, statuettes, little images, figures : egregia: Tyrrhena, H.: ornatus sigillis Circus, O.: certamina quattuor brevibus distincta sigillis, woven in , O.— A seal , H.