personification
PERSONIFICATION
ficta alienarum personarum oratio (after Quint. 6 1 25): fictio personarum (Quint. 9 2 29): personarum confictio (Aquil. Rom. p. 145 ed. Ruhnken): usually prosopopoeia (Greek; id.); conformatio (Auct. ad Her. 4 53 68).
ficta alienarum personarum oratio (after Quint. 6 1 25): fictio personarum (Quint. 9 2 29): personarum confictio (Aquil. Rom. p. 145 ed. Ruhnken): usually prosopopoeia (Greek; id.); conformatio (Auct. ad Her. 4 53 68).
personification: prŏsōpŏpoeia (only as rhetor. figure; Gr. προσωποποιΐα): Quint. 6, 1, 25, where it is defined as, ficta alienae personae oratio, i. e. the introducing of another person as if actually speaking (quum velut ipsorum ore res dicuntur): also, fictio personae, id. 9, 2, 29. Phr.: to make use of a p., personam fingere, cf. id. 9, 2, 36; *res inanimas ac sensu carentes tanquam sentientes vel loquentes inducere.