PERSON Copy link • PERSONExterior appearance, species: forma: corpus: statura: statura corporis. (The words are found in this connection and order.) forma et species, et statura (the whole person). To have a fine or handsome person, pulchra esse specie, forma, corporis: of a diminutive person, corpore parvo; statura parva (esse): Dionysius custodiam corporis feris barbaris committebat (the custody of his person, Cic.): to know one by person, nosse aliquem de facie (Cic., Pis., 32, 81). Part which one plays, persona; partes (plur.). [Vid: PART.] Individual, persona (with reference to the rank, character, conduct, etc., of the individual): a name is the distinctive appellation of a person, nomen est quod unicuique personae apponitur, quo suo quaeque proprio vocabulo appelletur (Cic.): they gave the same praenomen to three persons successively, continuarunt quodque praenomen per ternas personas (sc. familiae; Suet.): the person of the king, persona regis (e.g., sub specie majestatis occulitur; Justinus): distinguished persons, homines nobiles: to have respect of person, rationem habere, ducere, dignitatis alicujus tribuere, dare aliquid homini (after Cic.); servire personae (Cic.): without respect of person, nulla habita ratione dignitatis, amplitudinis. A human being (indefinitely), some one, homo (☞ not persona in this sense): three persons are present, adsunt tres homines: to speak against the person, not against the thing, in hominem, non in rem dicere (Sen.). Party, Vid: : the chief person, caput, princeps, auctor (Vid: HEAD): he was the chief person in the matter, dux, auctor, actor rerum illarum fuit (Cic., pr. Sext., 28, extr.). Oneself, not a representative, (mea, tua, nostra) persona (ego, tu, nos) in anyone’s person, sumpta alicujus persona; alicujus personam induentes, imitantes (☞ not sub alicujus persona; Vid: Klotz. ad Cic., Tusc., 1, 39, 93). In grammar, persona (Quint.; e.g., tertia persona). In theology, hypostasis (Ecclesiastical); or persona (technical term).