proper noun
Sĭgillārĭa
Meaning
- The last days of the Saturnalia
Sĭgillārĭa, ōrum, ibus and iis, n. sigilla.
I. The last days of the Saturnalia, in which people made each other presents, especially of little images; the feast of images, Macr. S. 1, 10 fin.; 1, 11; Tiber. ap. Suet. Claud. 5; Spart. Carac. 1 fin. (called by Aus. Eclog. Fer. Rom. 52, festa sigillorum; and by Lucil. ap. Porph. Hor. S. 1, 5, 87, Servorum festus).—
II. Transf.
A. The little images presented on the Sigillaria:
alicui sigillaria afferre, Sen. Ep. 12, 3 (called sigillaricia, Spart. Hadr. 17).—2. Images of the gods:
adoratis sigillaribus suis, Tert. Or. 12; Arn. 6, 197; 6, 199.—B. A place in Rome where these little images were sold, the image-market, Suet. Claud. 16 fin.; id. Ner. 28; Gell. 5, 4, 1; abl. Sigillaribus, Dig. 32, 1, 102:
Sigillariis, Gell. 2, 3, 5.