imitor ātus, āre, freq. 2 IC-, to imitate, act like, copy after, seek to resemble, counterfeit, mimic: genus ad omnia imitanda aptissimum, Cs.: in gloriā Paulum: aliquem imitando effingere: imitari quam invidere bonis malebant, S.: in adeundis periculis consuetudo imitanda medicorum est: habere exemplum ad imitandum: imitatur ianua portas, resembles, Iu.: vox sonitūs imitata tubarum, V.

—To imitate, represent, express, hit off, copy, portray: luctum penicillo: chirographum: antiquitatem: sine imitandorum carminum actu ludiones, not expressing by gesticulation, L.: mutatā iuvenem figurā, assume the form of, H.: putre solum arando, i. e. make friable, V.: Stipitibus ferrum, supply the place of, V.: gaudium, i. e. display, Tb.