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1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy:, 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection i:
whilst he played, he put his ring upon the finger of Venus' statua, which was thereby, made in brass […]
“statua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“statua”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
statua in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
statua in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to set up a statue in some one's honour: statuam alicui ponere, constituere
to put an inscription on statues: statuasinscribere (Verr. 2. 69. 167)
“statua”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers