fashion (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Shape, formII. Prevailing custom1. mos, mōris, m.2. consuētūdo (denoting a less permanent usage)3. rītus, ūs, m. (referring strictly to religious customs)4. sēcŭlum ("the age"; with its fashions) • fashion (subs.): I. Shape, form: q. v. II. Prevailing custom: 1. mos, mōris, m.: he said it was not the f. of the Greeks, negavit moris esse Graecorum, Cic.: the old f. keeps its ground, mos antiquus manet, Cic.: to drink after the Greek f., Graeco more bibere, Cic.: to bring a thing into f., in (nostros) mores, in morem, inducere, perducere, Cic.: to come into f., in morem venire, Liv.: Ov.: after the f., ex more, de more, more, more hominum, Pl.: Ter.: Virg.: to seek honour for infamy is now the f., petere honorem pro flagitio, more fit, Pl. 2. consuētūdo (denoting a less permanent usage): v. custom. 3. rītus, ūs, m. (referring strictly to religious customs): esp. in phr. after the f. (= manner) of, ritu: after the f. of brutes, quadrupedum ritu, Lucr.; pecudum r., Cic.: after the f. of young men, juvenum r., Hor. 4. sēcŭlum ("the age"; with its fashions): no one there laughs at vices, nor are seducing and being seduced called the f., nemo illic vitia ridet, nec corrumpere et corrumpi sec. vocatur, Tac. Ger. 19: not yet had that disregard of the gods which is now the f., come in, nondum haec, quae nunc tenet s., negligentia deum venerat, Liv. 3, 20, med. Phr.: it is my f. to talk nonsense, soleo nugas garrire, Pl.: you should not use these words if you can help it; by that means they will go out of f., his verbis oportet, si possis, non uti; sic enim obsolescent, Varr. 9 (8), 10: he was dressed quite out of the f., obsoletius vestitus fuit, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 58, 152: many words have gone out of f., multa ceciderunt verba, Hor. A. P. 70: skin clothing fell into contempt, went out of f., pellis cecidit vestis contempta ferina, Lucr. 5, 1417: a person of f., vir elegans, Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23.