Facies, pen. cor. huius faciéi. pen. pro. f. g. Plin. A face: a visage: a similitude: the cheere or countenaunce: the sigure, forme, or fashion of a thing. Facies.The stature or sigure of.-qua facie est homo? S. Sesquipede quidem est qum tu, longior. Pla. Of what stature or proportion is the man.Forma & facies.Cic.Fauour and figure.Facies & statura.Cic. Insignis facie lunenis. Virg.Præsignis facie puella.Ouid.A mayden of a passing goodly fauour.Aduersa facies. Quint. Cadauerosa. Terent.Cicatricosa. Quint. Decora. Horat. Egregiæ facies. Lucret. Flaccida facies.A flaggingface, hanging with the skinne wrinckled.Flammata facies. Sen. An angrie face.Hispida. Hor. Humana. Ouid.Incœsta. Lucan. Ingenua. Plaut.Informis. Lucan. A dissigured face.Inspta. Claud. A face marked with a hote pron.Inuisa.Virg. Irata Lucan. Liberalis.Terent. Mala. Qui. An ill fauored face.Mendosè.Ouid. Mœsta. Lucan. Mœstilsima.Val. Flac. Peregrinæ facies. Plaut.Præstante facie puella.Ouid.Prima facie. Caius. At the first sight.Puerilis facies.Ouid. Pulchra. Ouid.Rara puella facie.Ouid. Recta facies. Quint. Rugosior facies passa vua. Claud. A face more wrinckled tha the skinne of a reyson.Sacræ facies. Pers. Torua facies Senec.Tristis facies.Ouid. Tauces facies. Lucan. Varia ac noua facies. Quint. Vieta facies.A wrinckled or writheled face.Virginea facies.Ouid. Cogitare faciem alicuius.Cicer.To conceiue ones face in my minde.Cubare in saciem. Iuuenal. To lie groncling.Dimouere faciem ab aliquo. Hor. To turne from.A vet bis facies dissidet ista tuis.Ouid.Thy countenance and thy wordes agree not.Habere liberi hominis faciem. Quine. Ad eam rem habeo omnem faciem. Plau. I wil handle this matter euen as you woulde haue me.Pulchram faciem induere turbido animo. Seneca. Muratus facie & ota. Virgil. Hauing chaunged his face and countenaunce.Neglecta facies Ouid.A face not sinonthed or trimmed.De facie aliquem noscere.Cic.To know one by sight.Perfricare faciem. Pli. To shake off al shame: to be shamelesse.Prostitucre faciem suam lucro.Ouid.Torquere faciem. Quint. Frigora vexant faciem. Sene. Facies. Gellius, The fignre or fashion: the forme or ont wardeshewe and face of any thing.Sardinia facie vestigij humaui.Salust.Sardinia in fashion like the steppe of a mans foote.Sæua ac deformis tota vrbe facies.Tacit.All the citie was in estate cruell and horrible to see vnto: or there was in all the citie a eruell and shamefull sight.Facies arboris. Plin. The forme or fashion of a tree.Armorum ciuilium facies.Tacit.The face or shewe of, &c.Expressa facies ciuitatis in persona alicuius.Cic.Consilij publici facies.Tacit.Facies honesti.Cic.The shape and sigure of, &c.Loci facies.Tacit.Locorum facies.Tacit.The sigure or fashion of places.In faciem montis curuata vnda circunfterit. Virgilius. In fashion of au hil: like an hil.Positis loricis & galeis, in pacis faciem veniretur. Tac. That they shoulde come in peaceable wise, or as nien of peace.Ea pugnæ facies erat.Tacit.Such was the fashion of.Facies puluetis. Gellius. Contusaque in pulueris faciem. Ponnded like to vust or poulder.Scelerum facies.Virg.The formes of.Senatus faciem afferre. Cicero. To beare the face or countenaunce of a Senate at his comming.Sermonis simplicis facies. Quint. Solœcismi faciem habere. Quint To be like a Solœtisme.In faciem stagni.Tacit.Like to a standing poole.Proximus dies faciem victoriæ latius aperuit.Tacit.The nerte day declared more plainely howe notable or greate the victorte was.Immntata vrbis facies erat.Salust.The citie was in an other forme, o al was then chaunged in the citie to see to. Vertere se in omnes facies.Virg.To assay all meanes and wayes that he can.
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făcĭes, ēi (old form facies, rarely facii, Gell. 8, 14, 1: facie, Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 36; dat. facie, facii, Gell. l. l.; plur. very rare; nom. and acc. facies, Vulg. Thren. 5, 12; id. Jer. 42, 12; dat. faciebus, Hier. Eph. 3, 5), f. [root fa- of fari, strengthened fac-; cf. fax, facetus]. I. Orig., make, form, configuration, figure, shape.A. In gen. (= universa corporis forma; cf.: figura, species): Quidam faciem esse hominis putant os tantum et oculos et genas, quod Graeci proswpon dicunt: quando facies sit forma omnis et modus et factura quaedam corporis totius, etc., Gell. 13, 29: Sardinia in Africo mari facie vestigii humani, Sall. H. ap. Gell. l. l.; Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 151 sq.; cf. Non. 52, 27 sq.: non est formosa, cujus crus laudatur aut brachium, sed illa, cujus universa facies admirationem singulis partibus abstulit, Sen. Ep. 33; cf. Lucr. 5, 1169 sq.; Hor. S. 1, 2, 87.—2. Of things: Dae. Dicito, quid insit, et qua facie, memorato onmia ... Pa. Sunt crepundia. Dae. Qua facie sunt? Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 105 and 111: curvata in montis faciem circumstetit unda, Verg. G. 4, 361: haec facies Trojae, cum caperetur, erat, Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 26; cf. urbium, Plin. Ep. 2, 17 fin.: antequam Vesuvius faciem loci verteret, Tac. A. 4, 67: arboris, Plin. 12, 14, 31, 55: vehiculi, Gell. 15, 30, 3: alia illi caeli, Plin. 6, 17, 21, 58: ossa contusa in faciem pulveris, Gell. 10, 18, 3: longa quibus facies ovis erit, Hor. S. 2, 4, 12 et saep. —3. Prov.: verte omnes tete in facies, i. e. resort to every expedient (an expression borrowed from, and alluding to, the changes of Proteus), Verg. A. 12, 891.—B. In partic., face, visage, countenance (most freq. in class. Lat.; syn.: os, vultus, frons, lineamenta): facies homini tantum: ceteris os aut rostra, Plin. 11, 37, 51, 138: in facie vultuque nostro cum sint decem aut paulo plura membra, etc., id. 7, 1, 1, 8: non quaeruntur ea, quae nobis non possumus fingere, facies, vultus, sonus, Cic. de Or. 1, 28, 127: prorsus in facie vultuque vecordia inerat, Sall. C. 15, 5: qua facie, qua statura, Cic. Phil. 2, 16, 41: uretur facies; urentur sole capilli, Tib. 1, 9, 15: cf. id. 1, 5, 43: sumit utrumque Inde habitum facies, Juv. 9, 20: peregrina, Plaut. Ps. 4, 2, 9; cf.: affers faciem novam, Cic. Fl. 29, 70: liberali (homo), Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 20: egregiā (virgo),
of rare beauty
, id. Phorm. 1, 2, 50: hispida, Hor. C. 4, 10, 5: cicatricosa, Quint. 4, 1, 61: adversa, id. 2, 13, 9: curvo nec faciem litore demovet, Hor. C. 4, 5, 14: de facie quidem nosti, Cic. Pis. 32, 81: recta facie loqui, i. e.
, Ov. A. A. 3, 105.— Prov.: perfricare faciem, to lay aside shame, Plin. H. N. praef. 4; cf. Quint. 11, 3, 160.II.Trop., external form, look, condition, appearance (class.): set qua faciest tuus sodalis, Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 113; id. Rud. 2, 7, 7: fateantur, in Maeandrii persona esse expressam faciem civitatis, Cic. Fl. 22, 13; cf.: (C. Popilius) senatus faciem secum attulerat auctoritatemque Populi Romani, id. Phil. 8, 8, 23: una senum facies, cum voce trementia membra, etc., Juv. 10, 198: quibus rebus immutata facies urbis erat, Sall. C. 31, 1: loci, Tac. A. 4, 67: formam quidem ipsam et tamquam faciem honesti vides, Cic. Off. 1, 5, 14; Quint. 3, 6, 88; 4, 1, 42 Spald.: quarum (causarum) varia ac nova semper est facies, id. 2, 4, 28: plures eloquentiae facies, id. 12, 10, 69: (inventiunculae) facie ingenii blandiuntur, id. 8, 5, 22: nec ulla facies mali erat, Curt. 3, 11, 22: ad istam faciem est morbus qui me macerat,
has that form
,
is of such a nature
, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 73.—2. In partic., in Tac. for the class. species, external appearance, as opposed to reality, a pretence, pretext; publici consilii facie (= specie), Tac. H. 2, 54; id. A. 13, 28; Amm. 20, 5.—B.Transf., poet. and in post-Aug. prose, for the class. aspectus, look, sight, aspect: quae scelerum facies? Verg. A. 6, 560: subita, Sil. 7, 367: decora, Plin. Pan. 56, 5: memoranda, id. ib. 35, 1: foeda, id. ib. 82, 8: vineae unam faciem contexunt, id. Ep. 5, 6, 9: exceptio, quae prima facie justa videatur,
at first sight
, Gai. Inst. 4, 1: prima facie, Dig. 16, 1, 13; Sen. Ep. 87, 1; id. Contr. 5, 10, 15.