personify
personify
v. trans.
Represent as living: use P. and V. ἔμψῡχον κᾰθιστά̆ναι (acc.).
v. trans.
Represent as living: use P. and V. ἔμψῡχον κᾰθιστά̆ναι (acc.).
PERSONIFY
To represent as human *humanam speciem alicui rei dare; humana specie induere aliquid.
To introduce a thing as speaking or acting rem in personam constituere; rem loquentem inducere; rem mutam loquentem facere et formatam; alicui rei orationem attribuere ad dignitatem accommodatam aut actionem quandam (all Aquil. Rom. p. 145 ed. Ruhnken; Auct. ad Her. 4 53 66); rem ipsam loqui or agere fingere (Vid: Quint. 6 1 25).
To represent as human *humanam speciem alicui rei dare; humana specie induere aliquid.
To introduce a thing as speaking or acting rem in personam constituere; rem loquentem inducere; rem mutam loquentem facere et formatam; alicui rei orationem attribuere ad dignitatem accommodatam aut actionem quandam (all Aquil. Rom. p. 145 ed. Ruhnken; Auct. ad Her. 4 53 66); rem ipsam loqui or agere fingere (Vid: Quint. 6 1 25).
personify: Phr.: the ancients p.'d inanimate objects, as the Sun, Moon, *antiqui rebus inanimis, velut Soli, Lunaeque, vitam sensumque tribuebant: the poet here p.s fame, *hic poeta famae personam fictam inducit, cf. Quint. 9. 2, 36: in this play the clouds are p.'d, in hac fabula nubes quasi agentes atque loquentes inducuntur: cf. Cic. Or. 40, 138, muta quaedam loquentia inducere. (Rem in personam constituere [Kr. ex Aquila Rom.] is questionable Latinity, and suggestive of a legal rather than a poetical sense: v. PERSON , II.)