shadow Copy link Outline 1. umbra2. sometimes perh. sĭmŭlācrum (mere image, external form) • shadow: 1. umbra: I am resolved to follow you like a s., certum est mihi., quasi umbra, te persequi, Pl. Cas. 1, 4: to be afraid of (mere) s.s, umbras timere, Cic. Att. 15, 20. 2. sometimes perh. sĭmŭlācrum (mere image, external form): you are only the s. of yourself, *merum simulacrum tui ipsius esse videris: v. phantom. Phr.: not a s. of an excuse, *nulla ne minima quidem excusatio.
SHADE, SHADOW Copy link • SHADE, SHADOWs. PROP., Want of light, place not lighted by the sun, umbra (opposed to lux); opacitas (opposed to lumen; e.g., umbra platani, terrae; opacitas ramorum). To afford or give a shadow, umbram facere (Verg.), praebere (Sen., Trag.); umbrare (once, Col., 5, 7, 2). To repose in the shade, in or sub umbra requiescere: to cast a shadow, umbram jacere, ejaculari (Plin.), afferre (e.g. colles afferunt umbram vallibus, Cic., De Rep., 2, 6). A thick shade, umbra densa (Hor.), nigra (Luc.). To be afraid of a shadow, umbras timere (Cic.). To be afraid of one’s own shadow, suam timere umbram (Quint., Cic., Pet., Cons., 2). (proverbially) To throw anybody into the shade, obstruit aliquis luminibus alicujus (Cic.): to cast anything into the shade, removere et obruere aliquid (opposed to in luce ponere aliquid, or insigne facere aliquid, Cic.). Figuratively, (in painting) umbra (e.g., ars pictoria invenit lumen et umbras, Plin.; lumen et umbras custodire, ib.; in umbris et in eminentia, Cic.). To throw anything into the shade, *aliquid in imagine ita ponere, ut recedat (PROP.); aliquid removere et obruere (figuratively, opposed to aliquid in luce ponere or insigne facere). A slight or faint trace of anything, umbra (e.g., gloriae, juris, libertatis); adumbrata imago; imago; simulacrum; species (opposed to effigies eminens; res solida et expressa). A departed spirit, umbra; (plur.) umbrae (the shades; also, manes). Leisure, ease, umbra; otium. Protection, umbra; tutela. Difference or degree of color, discrimen: there are many shades even in white, in candore ipso magna differentia est: to have a shade of black, nigricare (to be blackish): nigrescere (to become black): (of violet) in violam vergere, violam sentire, in violam desinere (Plin.). White with a shade of violet, candidus color violam sentiens (Plin.). [Vid: HUE.] Figuratively, (Of meaning, etc.) discrimen. To distinguish the nice shades of meaning in words, tennissima discrimina significationum verborum definire. In painting, umbrae (plur.). [Vid: also, SHADING.] Protection (for the eyes), *umbraculum oculos a luminis splendore tuens.