model (v.) Copy link Outline I. Lit.II. In gen. sense • model (v.): I. Lit.: to m. a statue in clay, proplasma (not protypum) ex argilla fingere, cf. Plin. 35, 12, 43 and 45: cf. ib. 44 § 153, hominis imaginem gypso (in plaster) e facie exprimere, ceramque in eam formam infundere: v. model. The art of m.ing, plasticē, ēs: Plin. l. c. § 151. II. In gen. sense: expr. by exemplar (exemplum) ad imitandum proponere, Cic. Mur. 31, 66; or by imitari: v. to imitate. See also to fashion, shape.