signum (any plastic work; opposed to tabula, pictura): simulacrum (image of a god; Vid: IMAGE): statua (full-sized image of a person, in marble or brass; ☞ never = the image of a god): effigies (a bust): herma or hermes (a statue of Mercury; then, general term, a statue representing only the head with part of the breast of a person, the trunk consisting merely of an oblong stone). A statue of brass, on horseback or on foot, statua aenea equestris or pedestris: to erect a statue to anyone, alicui statuam ponere, constituere: he stands like a statue, taciturnior est statua (after Hor., Ep., 2, 2, 83): to make a marble statue, facere alicujus simulacrum e marmore.