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mīmus (noun M) = μῖμος: .
* A mimic actor, mime, Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242: oratori minime convenit distortus vultus gestusque: quae in mimis rideri solent,Quint. 6, 3, 29; Ov. A. A. 1, 501: nobilis,Juv. 8, 198.
* A mimic play, mime, farce.
* Lit.: mimi exitus,Cic. Cael. 27, 65: tutor, mimus vetus,id. de Or. 2, 64, 259: mimos scribere,Ov. Tr. 2, 497: mimorum scriptor,Quint. 1, 10, 17: mimos commentari,Cic. Phil. 11, 6, 13: mimum agere,Suet. Caes. 39; Juv. 13, 110: mimus quis melior plorante gula?id. 5, 157.
* Trop., any thing farcical, pretended, unreal.—Of the sham triumph of Caligula, Suet. Calig. 45: commendationis,Plin. 7, 12, 10, § 53: humanae vitae,Sen. Ep. 80, 7: mimus et simulatio,id. ib. 26, 5.
* A mimic actor, mime, Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242: oratori minime convenit distortus vultus gestusque: quae in mimis rideri solent,Quint. 6, 3, 29; Ov. A. A. 1, 501: nobilis,Juv. 8, 198.
* A mimic play, mime, farce.
* Lit.: mimi exitus,Cic. Cael. 27, 65: tutor, mimus vetus,id. de Or. 2, 64, 259: mimos scribere,Ov. Tr. 2, 497: mimorum scriptor,Quint. 1, 10, 17: mimos commentari,Cic. Phil. 11, 6, 13: mimum agere,Suet. Caes. 39; Juv. 13, 110: mimus quis melior plorante gula?id. 5, 157.
* Trop., any thing farcical, pretended, unreal.—Of the sham triumph of Caligula, Suet. Calig. 45: commendationis,Plin. 7, 12, 10, § 53: humanae vitae,Sen. Ep. 80, 7: mimus et simulatio,id. ib. 26, 5.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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