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1. Genius – Talent – Intelligence

magno animo esse– to be magnanimous, broad-minded.

animum attendere ad aliquid– to turn one's attention to a thing.

diligenter attendere (aliquid)– to attend carefully.

alias res or aliud agere– to be inattentive.

animo adesse 88– (1) to be attentive; (2) to keep one's presence of mind.

vir magno ingenio, ingeniosus– a man of ability.

vir magno ingenio praeditus– a man of ability.

ingenio valere– to be talented, gifted.

ingenio abundare– to be very talented.

natura et ingenium– natural gifts.

ingenium acuere– to sharpen the wits.

ingenii acumen– penetration; sagacity.

ingenii tarditas (opp. celeritas) – dulness of intellect.

ingenii infirmitas or imbecillitas– weakmindedness.

mentis compotem esse– to be of sane mind.

mente captum esse, mente alienata esse– to be out of one's mind.

sanae mentis esse– to be of sound mind.

mentis quasi luminibus officere (vid. sect. XIII. 6) or animo caliginem offundere– to obscure the mental vision.

intellegentia or mente multum valere89– to possess great ability.

ad intellegentiam communem or popularem accommodare aliquid– to accommodate something to the standard of the popular intelligence.

2. Imagination – Thought

animo, cogitatione aliquid fingere (or simply fingere, but without sibi), informare– to form an idea of a thing, imagine, conceive.

animo concipere aliquid– to form an idea of a thing, imagine, conceive.

animo, cogitatione aliquid praecipere (Off 1. 23. 81) – to form a conception of a thing beforehand.

cogitatione sibi aliquid depingere– to picture to oneself.

ingenium, cogitatio– imagination.

ingenii vis or celeritas– vivid, lively imagination.

rerum imagines– creatures of the imagination.

res cogitatione fictae or depictae– creatures of the imagination.

opinionum commenta, ineptiae, monstra, portenta– extravagant fictions of fancy.

animo, mente, cogitatione aliquid comprehendere, complecti– to grasp a thing mentally.

in eam cogitationem incidere– to happen to think of…

haec cogitatio subit animum– an idea strikes me.

illud succurrit mihi– an idea strikes me.

mihi in mentem venit alicuius rei– something comes into my mind.

aliquid animo meo obversatur (cf. sect. III, s. v. oculi) – a vague notion presents itself to my mind.

aliquem ad eam cogitationem adducere ut– to induce a person to think that…

alicuius animum ab aliqua re abducere– to draw away some one's attention from a thing.

cogitationem, animum in aliquid intendere (Acad. 4. 46) – to direct one's attention…

omnes cogitationes ad aliquid conferre– to give all one's attention to a thing.

mentem in aliqua re defigere– to fix all one's thoughts on an object.

in cogitatione defixum esse– to be deep in thought.

cogitationes in res humiles abicere (De Amic. 9. 32) (Opp. alte spectare, ad altiora tendere, altum, magnificum, divinum suspicere) – to study the commonplace.

3. Conceptions – Ideals – Perfection

notiones animo (menti) insitae, innatae– innate ideas.

intellegentiae adumbratae 90 or incohatae (De Leg. 1. 22. 59) – vague, undeveloped ideas.

notionem or rationem alicuius rei in animo informare or animo concipere– to form a conception, notion of a thing.

absolutus et perfectus– absolutely perfect.

omnibus numeris absolutus (N. D. 2. 13) – perfect in every detail.

ad summum perducere– to bring to the highest perfection.

perficere et absolvere– to bring to the highest perfection.

ad perfectionem, (ad summum) pervenire– to attain perfection.

absolutio et perfectio (not summa perfectio) – ideal perfection.

cogitatione, non re– ideally, not really.

undique expleta et perfecta forma– an ideal.

species optima or eximia, specimen, also simply species, forma– an ideal.

comprehensam quandam animo speciem (alicuius rei) habere– to have formed an ideal notion of a thing.

singularem quandam perfectionis imaginem animo concipere– to conceive an ideal.

imaginem perfecti oratoris adumbrare– to sketch the ideal of an orator.

civitas optima, perfecta Platonis– Plato's ideal republic.

illa civitas Platonis commenticia– Plato's ideal republic.

illa civitas, quam Plato finxit– Plato's ideal republic.

4. Opinion – Prejudice – Conjecture

in sententia manere, permanere, perseverare, perstare– to abide by, persist in one's opinion.

illud, hoc teneo– I abide by this opinion.

a sententia sua discedere– to give up one's opinion.

de sententia sua decedere– to give up one's opinion.

(de) sententia desistere– to give up one's opinion.

de sententia deici, depelli, deterreri– to be forced to change one's mind.

de sententia aliquem deducere, movere– to make a man change his opinion.

aliquem ad suam sententiam perducere or in suam sententiam adducere– to win a man over to one's own way of thinking.

ad alicuius sententiam accedere, sententiam alicuius sequi– to adopt some one's opinion.

idem sentire (opp. dissentire ab aliquo) – to hold the same views.

sententiam suam aperire 91– to freely express one's opinions.

sententiam fronte celare, tegere– not to betray one's feelings by one's looks.

dic quid sentias 92– give me your opinion.

in hac sum sententia, ut…putem– I think that…

plura in eam sententiam disputare– to discuss a subject more fully on the same lines.

ut mea fert opinio– according to my opinion.

ut mihi quidem videtur– according to my opinion.

mea (quidem) sententia– according to my opinion.

quot homines, tot sententiae– many men, many minds.

opiniones falsas animo imbibere– to be imbibing false opinions.

opinionibus falsis imbui– to be imbibing false opinions.

opinionis error– erroneous opinion.

opinio praeiudicata, also simply opinio (not praeiudicium = a preliminary decision) – prejudice.

opinio confirmata, inveterata– a rooted opinion.

opinionum pravitate infici– to be filled with absurd prejudices.

opinionum commenta (N. D. 2. 2. 5) – chimeras.

monstra or portenta– marvellous ideas; prodigies.

coniectura assequi, consequi, aliquid coniectura colligere– to conjecture.

quantum ego coniectura assequor, auguror– as far as I can guess.

coniecturam alicuius rei facere or capere ex aliqua re– to infer by comparison, judge one thing by another.

de se (ex se de aliis) coniecturam facere– to judge others by oneself.

aliquid in coniectura positum est– it is a matter of conjecture, supposition.

aliquid coniectura nititur, continetur (Div. 1. 14. 24) – it is a matter of conjecture, supposition.

probabilia coniectura sequi– to try to conjecture probabilities.

aliquid mihi nec opinanti, insperanti accidit– a thing has happened contrary to my expectation.

5. Truth – Error

verum dicere, profiteri– to speak the truth, admit the truth.

omnia ad veritatem 93 dicere– to be truthful in all one's statements.

veritatis amans, diligens, studiosus– truthful; veracious.

a vero aversum esse (Catil. 3. 1. 29) – to be averse to truth.

a veritate deflectere, desciscere– to swerve from the truth.

veri videndi, investigandi cupiditas– love of truth.

veri inquisitio atque investigatio– zealous pursuit of truth.

a vero abduci– to be led away from the truth.

proxime ad verum accedere– to be very near the truth.

a vero non abhorrere– to be probable.

veri simile esse– to be probable.

haec speciosiora quam veriora sunt– this is more plausible than true.

vera et falsa (a falsis) diiudicare– to distinguish true and false.

vera cum falsis confundere– to confuse true with false.

veritas– veracity.

re (vera), reapse (opp. specie) – in truth; really.

in errore versari– to be mistaken.

magno errore teneri– to be in gross error, seriously misled.

in magno errore versari– to be in gross error, seriously misled.

vehementer errare– to be in gross error, seriously misled.

erroribus implicari (Tusc. 4. 27. 58) – to fall into error.

per errorem labi, or simply labi– to take a false step.

aliquem in errorem inducere, rapere– to lead a person into error.

errorem animo imbibere– to get a mistaken notion into the mind.

errorem cum lacte nutricis sugere (Tusc. 3. 1. 2) – to imbibe error from one's mother's breasts.

error longe lateque diffusus– a wide-spread error.

errorem tollere– to banish an error, do away with a false impression.

errorem amputare et circumcīdere– to banish an error, do away with a false impression.

errorem stirpitus extrahere– to totally eradicate false principles.

errorem deponere, corrigere– to amend, correct one's mistake.

alicui errorem demere, eripere, extorquere– to undeceive a person.

nisi fallor– if I am not mistaken.

nisi (animus) me fallit– if I am not mistaken.

nisi omnia me fallunt– unless I'm greatly mistaken.

6. Choice – Doubt – Scruple

optionem alicui dare (Acad. 2. 7. 19) – to give a person his choice.

optionem alicui dare, utrum…an– to offer a person the alternative of… or…

in dubium vocare– to throw doubt upon a thing.

in dubio ponere– to throw doubt upon a thing.

in dubium venire– to become doubtful.

quod aliquam (magnam) dubitationem habet (Leg. Agr. 1. 4. 11) – a thing which is rather (very) dubious.

dubitatio mihi affertur, inicitur– a doubt arises in my mind.

dubitationem alicui tollere– to relieve a person of his doubts.

aliquid in medio, in dubio relinquere

88

For the second meaning cf. Cicero, ades animo et omitte timorem, Scipio.

89

captus, in the meaning ability, capacity, only occurs in the phrase ut captus est servorum; while capacitas merely means capacity, content, e.g. vasorum.

90

adumbrare is a technical term of painting = to make a sketch, outline of an object; then metaphorically, to merely hint at a thing. Its opposite is exprimere, technical term of sculpture, =figuratively, to represent exactly, clearly. It never has the simple meaning "to express."

91

se aperire = to betray oneself; cf. se indicare (Liv. 2. 12).

92

Not sententiam dicere, which is used of senators giving their vote; cf. suffragium ferre.

93

verum = the truth, concrete; veritas = truth in the abstract.