• portrait: ĭmāgo, ĭnis, f.: p.s of the kings of Sicily, imagines Siciliae regum, Cic. Verr. 4, 55, 123: p.s in profile, obliquae i., Plin. 35, 8, 34 § 56: p.s so exactly alike, i. adeo indiscretae similitudinis, ib. 35, 10, 36 § 88. (N.B.--Imago may equally well denote a portrait bust; hence, where the context does not define., picta should be added.) Phr.: to paint the p. of Alexander, Alexandrum pingere, Plin. 35, 10, 36 § 85: Hor.: he painted p.s of the generals, iconicos duces pinxit, Plin. 35, 8, 34 (de proelio apud Marathona facto): a p. statue, simulacrum iconicum, Suet. Cal. 22. (Simulacrum, effigies, appear not to be used in good authors for a painted portrait: in Cic. Inv. 2, 1, 1 the phr. simulacrum pingere, refers to an ideal representation, not a portrait.)