COPY Copy link • COPY 1. Of any written document, etc., exemplar: exemplum: a copy of a speech written out by the author, oratio sua manu transcripta: an exact copy of a will, tabulae testamenti eodem exemplo: testamentum eodem exemplo (Caes., B.G., 3, 108; Suet., Tib., 76, Bremi): a copy of a letter, exemplar litterarum or epistolae: I have subjoined a copy of the letter, earum litterarum exemplum infra scriptum est: I have received a letter from Balbus, of which I send you a copy, habeo a Balbo litteras, quarum exemplum ad te misi. Copy of a painting, exemplar (Plin.); imitatio; *tabula picta ad aliam expressa. To make or take a copy (of a picture, bust), etc., (imaginem) exscribere pingereque (Plin., Ep., 4, 28): picturam ex altera exprimere (Plin.): the copy of a copy, imitatio imitationis: to make a copy, imaginem exscribere. Of a book, exemplar; exemplum: exemplar typis exscriptum (printed copy): before any copy was struck off, antequam liber typis exscribatur (exscriberetur): to publish a thousand copies of a work, librum in exemplaria millia transcribere, or, of printed copies, describendum curare. A copy (to be imitated by one who is learning to write), versus ad imitationem scribendi propositus (after Quint., 1, 1, 35): litterae praeformatae (of single letters). To set a boy a copy, alicui praeformare litteras (Quint.; of single letters): alicui versum ad imitationem scribendi proponere (Quint.). 2. v. Imitate, imitari: imitando or imitatione exprimere: imitando effingere (et exprimere). Vid: IMITATE. Of writers, painters, etc.: describere: exscribere (of a writer or painter): exscribere pingereque (of a painter only): to copy after nature, or the life, similitudinem effingere ex vero: rescribere (i. e., to write over again, make another copy): to copy anything with one’s own hand, aliquid sua manu transcribere: to copy the fifth book of anybody’s work, a aliquo librum quintum describere: to copy a writer word for word without acknowledgement, auctorem ad verbum transcribere, neque nominare (Plin., Hist., Nat., praef., § 22); furari aliquid ab aliquo (stronger term). Copied, descriptus: exscriptus: transcriptus.