IDOL Copy link • IDOLPROPR., idolum (ecclesiastical): signum or simulacrum dei: deus fictus or commenticius, or fictus et commenticius. To worship idols, *deos fictos et commenticios venerari, colere; *simulacra divino cultu colere. FIG., Demetrius is their idol, Demetrius iis unus omnia est (Liv.): the son is the mother’s idol, mater filium in oculis gestat: to make a person or thing one’s idol, aliquem, aliquid pro deo venerari; insanire amore alicujus rei: to make anybody the idol of anybody, facere aliquem apud aliquem deum (Terentianus). Sometimes heros (of a political idol; the great man of a party; e.g., heros ille noster Cato).