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fingo, finxi, fictum, 3, v. a. [Sanscr. dih-, dēhmi, smear; Gr. thig, thinganô, touch; whence figulus, figura, etc.; prop., to handle].

Lit.

To touch, handle, stroke, touch gently (rare):

mulcere alternos, et corpora fingere lingua,

Verg. A. 8, 634:

saepe manus aegras manibus fingebat amicis,

Ov. F. 5, 409.—

Esp., to form, shape, fashion, frame, make (class.), whence also figulus:

esse aliquam vim, quae finxerit, vel, ut tuo verbo utar, quae fabricata sit hominem,

Cic. Ac. 2, 27, 87; cf.:

ab aliquo deo ficti esse videantur,

id. de Or. 1, 25, 115:

fingere et construere nidos,

build, id. ib. 2, 6, 23:

favos,

id. Off. 1, 44, 157:

ut illa bestia fetum ederet informem, lambendo postgea fingeret, etc.,

Gell. 17, 10, 3.—

In partic.

Of the plastic art, to form or fashion by art (in wax, clay, stone, etc.), to mould or model, as a statuary:

quorum alterum fingere opinor e cera solitum esse, alterum esse pictorem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 13, § 30; cf.:

in ceris aut fictilibus figuris,

id. N. D. 1, 26, 71:

similitudines ex argilla,

Plin. 35, 12, 43, § 151; cf.

, sarcastically: hic homullus, ex argilla et luto fictus Epicurus,

Cic. Pis. 25, 59:

pocula de humo,

Ov. Tr. 2, 489:

Alexander ab Apelle potissimum pingi et a Lysippo fingi volebat... qui neque pictam neque fictam imaginem suam passus est esse, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 7; cf.:

fingendi ars,

of making statues, statuary, id. de Or. 3, 7, 26:

corpora fingendo pingendove efficere,

Quint. 5, 12, 21.—

With the access. notion of arranging, adorning, etc., to set to rights, arrange; to adorn, dress, trim ( poet. syn.:

componere, excolere, ornare): Bene cum lauta est (mulier), tersa, ornata, ficta est: infecta est tamen,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 4:

cum se non finxerit ulli,

Ov. R. Am. 341:

isti ficti, compositi, crispi cincinni,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 32; cf.:

canas fingere comas,

Tib. 1, 2, 92:

comas presso pollice,

Prop. 3, 10 (4, 9), 14; Ov. A. A. 1, 306; Mart. 6, 57; cf.:

comas auro,

Stat. Th. 5, 228:

crinem,

Verg. A. 4, 148; cf. also Phaedr. 2, 2, 9:

vitem putando,

Verg. G. 2, 407 Forbig.—

With the access. notion of untruth, to alter, change, for the purpose of dissembling:

hi neque vultum fingere, neque interdum lacrimas tenere poterant,

Caes. B. G. 1, 39, 4; cf.:

vultus quoque hominum fingit scelus,

i. e. makes men change countenance, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 14.

Trop.

In gen., to form, fashion, make: Ly. multa eveniunt homini quae [p. 751] volt, quae nevolt. Ph. Mentire, gnate, nam sapiens quidem pol ipsus fingit fortunam sibi, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 84; cf.

the vv. foll.: natura fingit homines et creat imitatores et narratores facetos,

Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 219:

animos fingere, formare,

id. Brut. 38, 142: cf.:

moderari et fingere mentem ac voluntates,

id. Leg. 3, 18, 40:

ea quae nobis non possumus fingere, vultus, facies, sonus,

id. de Or. 1, 28, 127: formam totius rei publicae velim mittas, ex qua me fingere possim, regulate myself, i. e. proceed, act, id. Att. 6, 3, 4; cf.:

ad eorum (qui audiunt) arbitrium et nutum totos se fingunt et accommodant,

id. Or. 8, 24:

ea (verba) nos sicut mollissimam ceram ad nostrum arbitrium formamus et fingimus,

id. de Or. 3, 45, 177; cf.

also: arbitrio fingere,

id. Brut. 79, 274:

fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 54; cf.:

vitam subito flecti fingique posse,

shaped, directed, Cic. Sull. 28, 79; cf. id. ib. 25, 69:

jure erat semper idem voltus, cum mentis, a qua is fingitur, nulla fieret mutatio,

id. Tusc. 3, 15, 31; cf.:

circumspexit amictus et finxit vultum,

composed, Ov. M. 4, 318:

lingua vocem immoderate profusam fingit et terminat,

forms, Cic. N. D. 2, 59, 149; cf.:

Peripateticorum institutis commodius fingeretur oratio,

id. Brut. 31, 119: ego apis Matinae more modoque operosa parvus carmina fingo (like the Gr. plattô), make, compose, Hor. C. 4, 2, 32:

carmina,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 227; id. A. P. 331; 240:

versus,

id. ib. 382:

poëmata,

Suet. Tit. 3:

opprobria in quemvis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 30.—

In partic.

With a double predicate, to form, make into something or in a certain manner:

finxit te ipsa natura ad honestatem, gravitatem... ad omnes denique virtutes magnum hominem et excelsum,

Cic. Mur. 29, 60:

nec, si miserum fortuna Sinonem Finxit, vanum etiam mendacemque improba finget,

Verg. A. 2, 79:

(illum) spissae nemorum comae Fingent Aeolio carmine nobilem,

Hor. C. 4, 3, 12:

di bene fecerunt, inopis me quodque pusilli Finxerunt animi,

id. S. 1, 4, 18: timui, mea me finxisse minora putarer Dissimulator opis propriae, to have lessened, i. e. purposely disparaged it, id. Ep. 1, 9, 8.—

To form by instruction, to instruct, teach, train:

idem mire finxit filium,

i. e. caused him to play his part, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 25; cf.:

voce paterna Fingeris ad rectum,

Hor. A. P. 367:

fingitur artibus,

id. C. 3, 6, 22:

fingit equum tenera docilem cervice magister Ire viam, qua monstret eques,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 64.—

To form mentally or in speech, to represent in thought, to imagine, conceive, think, suppose; to sketch out:

fingite animis... fingite cogitatione imaginem hujus condicionis meae, etc.,

Cic. Mil. 29, 79; cf.:

omnia quae cogitatione nobismet ipsi possumus fingere,

id. N. D. 3, 18, 47:

fingere animo,

id. de Sen. 12, 41: cf.

also: animo et cogitatione,

id. Tusc. 5, 24, 68:

ex sua natura ceteros,

to conceive of, id. Rosc. Am. 9, 26:

quid magis exercitum dici aut fingi potest?

id. Mil. 2, 5:

maleficium,

id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116:

tu, stulta, deos, tu fingis inania vera,

Prop. 3, 20 (4, 19), 5:

qui utilitatum causa fingunt amicitias,

suppose, Cic. Lael. 14, 51:

principatum sibi ipse opinionis errore finxerat,

had imagined to himself, id. Off. 1, 8, 26:

in summo oratore fingendo,

in representing, sketching out, id. Or. 2, 7:

finge tamen te improbulum,

Juv. 5, 72.—

With double acc.:

quod si qui me astutiorem fingit,

Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 6:

Tiresiam sapientem fingunt poetae... at vero Polyphemum Homerus immanem finxit,

id. Tusc. 5, 39, 115.—

With an object-clause, and in pass., with a subject-clause:

finge, aliquem nunc fierisapientem, nondum esse,

suppose, Cic. Ac. 2, 36, 117:

finge solum natum nothum,

Quint. 3, 6, 100.—Ellipt.: interfecti aliqui sunt;

finge a nobis,

assume, grant, Liv. 39, 37, 11:

fingamus Alexandrum dari nobis,

Quint. 1, 1, 24:

non omnia corpora fingunt in medium niti,

Lucr. 1, 1083; cf. id. 2, 175:

qui naufragus fingitur se suspendisse,

Quint. 8, 5, 22:

qui suos artus morsu lacerasset, fingitur in scholis supra se cubasse,

id. 8, 2, 20.—

Pregn., with the access. notion of creating by thinking, to contrive, devise, invent, feign something (esp. untrue):

argento comparando fingere fallaciam,

Plaut. As. 2, 1, 2; 4:

fallacias,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 22:

fallaciam,

id. And. 1, 3, 15; cf.: nonne ad senem aliquam fabricam fingit? id. Heaut. 3, 2, 34:

fingit causas, ne det, sedulo,

id. Eun. 1, 2, 58:

falsas causas ad discordiam,

id. Hec. 4, 4, 71:

si mihi aliquam (rem publicam), ut apud Platonem Socrates, ipse finxero,

Cic. Rep. 2, 1 fin.; cf. id. ib. 2, 11:

ex eventis fingere,

id. Fam. 6, 6, 4:

(crimina) in istum fingere,

id. Verr. 1, 5, 15:

ea quae sunt in usu vitaque communi, non ea, quae finguntur aut optantur,

id. Lael. 5, 18:

in faciem moresque meos nova crimina fingis,

Ov. H. 12, 177:

fingere qui non visa potest, commissa tacere Qui nequit,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 84:

quaelibet in quemvis opprobria fingere,

id. Ep. 1, 15, 30:

finguntur et testamenta,

Quint. 7, 4, 39:

nemo dolorem fingit in hoc casu,

Juv. 13, 132: qui sub obtentu monituum deorum scientes eos fingunt, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 15, 2, 6. —With double acc.:

bonois se ac liberales,

Sen. Ben. 4, 17, 3.—With inf.:

ignorare fingit,

Claud. in Eutrop. 2, 306.—Hence, fic-tus, a, um, P. a., feigned, fictitious, false:

in amicitia nihil fictum est, nihil simulatum,

Cic. Lael. 8, 26; cf. id. ib. 18, 65:

ficto officio et simulata sedultiate conjunctus,

id. Caecin. 5, 14:

in re ficta (opp. in vera),

id. Lael. 7, 24:

falsum est id totum neque solum fictum, sed etiam imperite absurdeque fictum,

id. Rep. 2, 15:

commenticii et ficti dii,

id. N. D. 2, 28, 70:

fabula,

id. Off. 3, 9, 39:

in rebus fictis et adumbratis,

id. Lael. 26, 97:

amor,

Lucr. 4, 1192:

gemitus,

Ov. M. 6, 565:

cunctatio,

Tac. A. 1, 46:

ficto pectore fatur,

Verg. A. 2, 107.— Poet. and in post-Aug. prose also, of persons:

pro bene sano Ac non incauto fictum astutumque vocamus,

dissembling, false, Hor. S. 1, 3, 62:

alii fictum (eum), ingratum, immemorem loquuntur,

Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 3;

but: ficta pellice plorat,

imaginary, Juv. 6, 272.— Poet., subst.: fictum, i, n., deception, fiction:

ficti pravique tenax,

Verg. A. 4, 188:

jam consumpserat omnem Materiam ficti,

Ov. M. 9, 767.—Adverb.:

fictumque in colla minatus, Crura subit,

Stat. Th. 6, 876.— Adv.: ficte, feignedly, fictitiously:

ficte et simulate quaestus causa insusurrare,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 13:

ficte reconciliata gratia,

id. Fam. 3, 12, 4.

fingo, finxi, fictum, 3, v. a. [Sanscr. dih-, dēhmi, smear; Gr. thig, thinganô, touch; whence figulus, figura, etc.; prop., to handle].

Lit.

To touch, handle, stroke, touch gently (rare):

mulcere alternos, et corpora fingere lingua,

Verg. A. 8, 634:

saepe manus aegras manibus fingebat amicis,

Ov. F. 5, 409.—

Esp., to form, shape, fashion, frame, make (class.), whence also figulus:

esse aliquam vim, quae finxerit, vel, ut tuo verbo utar, quae fabricata sit hominem,

Cic. Ac. 2, 27, 87; cf.:

ab aliquo deo ficti esse videantur,

id. de Or. 1, 25, 115:

fingere et construere nidos,

build, id. ib. 2, 6, 23:

favos,

id. Off. 1, 44, 157:

ut illa bestia fetum ederet informem, lambendo postgea fingeret, etc.,

Gell. 17, 10, 3.—

In partic.

Of the plastic art, to form or fashion by art (in wax, clay, stone, etc.), to mould or model, as a statuary:

quorum alterum fingere opinor e cera solitum esse, alterum esse pictorem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 13, § 30; cf.:

in ceris aut fictilibus figuris,

id. N. D. 1, 26, 71:

similitudines ex argilla,

Plin. 35, 12, 43, § 151; cf.

, sarcastically: hic homullus, ex argilla et luto fictus Epicurus,

Cic. Pis. 25, 59:

pocula de humo,

Ov. Tr. 2, 489:

Alexander ab Apelle potissimum pingi et a Lysippo fingi volebat... qui neque pictam neque fictam imaginem suam passus est esse, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 7; cf.:

fingendi ars,

of making statues, statuary, id. de Or. 3, 7, 26:

corpora fingendo pingendove efficere,

Quint. 5, 12, 21.—

With the access. notion of arranging, adorning, etc., to set to rights, arrange; to adorn, dress, trim ( poet. syn.:

componere, excolere, ornare): Bene cum lauta est (mulier), tersa, ornata, ficta est: infecta est tamen,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 4:

cum se non finxerit ulli,

Ov. R. Am. 341:

isti ficti, compositi, crispi cincinni,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 32; cf.:

canas fingere comas,

Tib. 1, 2, 92:

comas presso pollice,

Prop. 3, 10 (4, 9), 14; Ov. A. A. 1, 306; Mart. 6, 57; cf.:

comas auro,

Stat. Th. 5, 228:

crinem,

Verg. A. 4, 148; cf. also Phaedr. 2, 2, 9:

vitem putando,

Verg. G. 2, 407 Forbig.—

With the access. notion of untruth, to alter, change, for the purpose of dissembling:

hi neque vultum fingere, neque interdum lacrimas tenere poterant,

Caes. B. G. 1, 39, 4; cf.:

vultus quoque hominum fingit scelus,

i. e. makes men change countenance, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 14.

Trop.

In gen., to form, fashion, make: Ly. multa eveniunt homini quae [p. 751] volt, quae nevolt. Ph. Mentire, gnate, nam sapiens quidem pol ipsus fingit fortunam sibi, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 84; cf.

the vv. foll.: natura fingit homines et creat imitatores et narratores facetos,

Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 219:

animos fingere, formare,

id. Brut. 38, 142: cf.:

moderari et fingere mentem ac voluntates,

id. Leg. 3, 18, 40:

ea quae nobis non possumus fingere, vultus, facies, sonus,

id. de Or. 1, 28, 127: formam totius rei publicae velim mittas, ex qua me fingere possim, regulate myself, i. e. proceed, act, id. Att. 6, 3, 4; cf.:

ad eorum (qui audiunt) arbitrium et nutum totos se fingunt et accommodant,

id. Or. 8, 24:

ea (verba) nos sicut mollissimam ceram ad nostrum arbitrium formamus et fingimus,

id. de Or. 3, 45, 177; cf.

also: arbitrio fingere,

id. Brut. 79, 274:

fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 54; cf.:

vitam subito flecti fingique posse,

shaped, directed, Cic. Sull. 28, 79; cf. id. ib. 25, 69:

jure erat semper idem voltus, cum mentis, a qua is fingitur, nulla fieret mutatio,

id. Tusc. 3, 15, 31; cf.:

circumspexit amictus et finxit vultum,

composed, Ov. M. 4, 318:

lingua vocem immoderate profusam fingit et terminat,

forms, Cic. N. D. 2, 59, 149; cf.:

Peripateticorum institutis commodius fingeretur oratio,

id. Brut. 31, 119: ego apis Matinae more modoque operosa parvus carmina fingo (like the Gr. plattô), make, compose, Hor. C. 4, 2, 32:

carmina,

id. Ep. 2, 1, 227; id. A. P. 331; 240:

versus,

id. ib. 382:

poëmata,

Suet. Tit. 3:

opprobria in quemvis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 30.—

In partic.

With a double predicate, to form, make into something or in a certain manner:

finxit te ipsa natura ad honestatem, gravitatem... ad omnes denique virtutes magnum hominem et excelsum,

Cic. Mur. 29, 60:

nec, si miserum fortuna Sinonem Finxit, vanum etiam mendacemque improba finget,

Verg. A. 2, 79:

(illum) spissae nemorum comae Fingent Aeolio carmine nobilem,

Hor. C. 4, 3, 12:

di bene fecerunt, inopis me quodque pusilli Finxerunt animi,

id. S. 1, 4, 18: timui, mea me finxisse minora putarer Dissimulator opis propriae, to have lessened, i. e. purposely disparaged it, id. Ep. 1, 9, 8.—

To form by instruction, to instruct, teach, train:

idem mire finxit filium,

i. e. caused him to play his part, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 25; cf.:

voce paterna Fingeris ad rectum,

Hor. A. P. 367:

fingitur artibus,

id. C. 3, 6, 22:

fingit equum tenera docilem cervice magister Ire viam, qua monstret eques,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 64.—

To form mentally or in speech, to represent in thought, to imagine, conceive, think, suppose; to sketch out:

fingite animis... fingite cogitatione imaginem hujus condicionis meae, etc.,

Cic. Mil. 29, 79; cf.:

omnia quae cogitatione nobismet ipsi possumus fingere,

id. N. D. 3, 18, 47:

fingere animo,

id. de Sen. 12, 41: cf.

also: animo et cogitatione,

id. Tusc. 5, 24, 68:

ex sua natura ceteros,

to conceive of, id. Rosc. Am. 9, 26:

quid magis exercitum dici aut fingi potest?

id. Mil. 2, 5:

maleficium,

id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116:

tu, stulta, deos, tu fingis inania vera,

Prop. 3, 20 (4, 19), 5:

qui utilitatum causa fingunt amicitias,

suppose, Cic. Lael. 14, 51:

principatum sibi ipse opinionis errore finxerat,

had imagined to himself, id. Off. 1, 8, 26:

in summo oratore fingendo,

in representing, sketching out, id. Or. 2, 7:

finge tamen te improbulum,

Juv. 5, 72.—

With double acc.:

quod si qui me astutiorem fingit,

Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 6:

Tiresiam sapientem fingunt poetae... at vero Polyphemum Homerus immanem finxit,

id. Tusc. 5, 39, 115.—

With an object-clause, and in pass., with a subject-clause:

finge, aliquem nunc fierisapientem, nondum esse,

suppose, Cic. Ac. 2, 36, 117:

finge solum natum nothum,

Quint. 3, 6, 100.—Ellipt.: interfecti aliqui sunt;

finge a nobis,

assume, grant, Liv. 39, 37, 11:

fingamus Alexandrum dari nobis,

Quint. 1, 1, 24:

non omnia corpora fingunt in medium niti,

Lucr. 1, 1083; cf. id. 2, 175:

qui naufragus fingitur se suspendisse,

Quint. 8, 5, 22:

qui suos artus morsu lacerasset, fingitur in scholis supra se cubasse,

id. 8, 2, 20.—

Pregn., with the access. notion of creating by thinking, to contrive, devise, invent, feign something (esp. untrue):

argento comparando fingere fallaciam,

Plaut. As. 2, 1, 2; 4:

fallacias,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 22:

fallaciam,

id. And. 1, 3, 15; cf.: nonne ad senem aliquam fabricam fingit? id. Heaut. 3, 2, 34:

fingit causas, ne det, sedulo,

id. Eun. 1, 2, 58:

falsas causas ad discordiam,

id. Hec. 4, 4, 71:

si mihi aliquam (rem publicam), ut apud Platonem Socrates, ipse finxero,

Cic. Rep. 2, 1 fin.; cf. id. ib. 2, 11:

ex eventis fingere,

id. Fam. 6, 6, 4:

(crimina) in istum fingere,

id. Verr. 1, 5, 15:

ea quae sunt in usu vitaque communi, non ea, quae finguntur aut optantur,

id. Lael. 5, 18:

in faciem moresque meos nova crimina fingis,

Ov. H. 12, 177:

fingere qui non visa potest, commissa tacere Qui nequit,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 84:

quaelibet in quemvis opprobria fingere,

id. Ep. 1, 15, 30:

finguntur et testamenta,

Quint. 7, 4, 39:

nemo dolorem fingit in hoc casu,

Juv. 13, 132: qui sub obtentu monituum deorum scientes eos fingunt, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 15, 2, 6. —With double acc.:

bonois se ac liberales,

Sen. Ben. 4, 17, 3.—With inf.:

ignorare fingit,

Claud. in Eutrop. 2, 306.—Hence, fic-tus, a, um, P. a., feigned, fictitious, false:

in amicitia nihil fictum est, nihil simulatum,

Cic. Lael. 8, 26; cf. id. ib. 18, 65:

ficto officio et simulata sedultiate conjunctus,

id. Caecin. 5, 14:

in re ficta (opp. in vera),

id. Lael. 7, 24:

falsum est id totum neque solum fictum, sed etiam imperite absurdeque fictum,

id. Rep. 2, 15:

commenticii et ficti dii,

id. N. D. 2, 28, 70:

fabula,

id. Off. 3, 9, 39:

in rebus fictis et adumbratis,

id. Lael. 26, 97:

amor,

Lucr. 4, 1192:

gemitus,

Ov. M. 6, 565:

cunctatio,

Tac. A. 1, 46:

ficto pectore fatur,

Verg. A. 2, 107.— Poet. and in post-Aug. prose also, of persons:

pro bene sano Ac non incauto fictum astutumque vocamus,

dissembling, false, Hor. S. 1, 3, 62:

alii fictum (eum), ingratum, immemorem loquuntur,

Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 3;

but: ficta pellice plorat,

imaginary, Juv. 6, 272.— Poet., subst.: fictum, i, n., deception, fiction:

ficti pravique tenax,

Verg. A. 4, 188:

jam consumpserat omnem Materiam ficti,

Ov. M. 9, 767.—Adverb.:

fictumque in colla minatus, Crura subit,

Stat. Th. 6, 876.— Adv.: ficte, feignedly, fictitiously:

ficte et simulate quaestus causa insusurrare,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 13:

ficte reconciliata gratia,

id. Fam. 3, 12, 4.

sĭmŭlo (less correctly sĭmĭlo; v. assimulo fin.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [similis].

In gen., to make a thing like another; to imitate, copy, represent a thing (mostly poet.;

syn. imitor): corpora igni simulata,

made like, like, Lucr. 1, 687:

nimbos et non imitabile fulmen simulare,

Verg. A. 6, 591:

simulet Catonem,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 13:

cum sint crura tibi, simulent quae cornua lunae,

Mart. 2, 35, 1:

furias Bacchi,

Ov. M. 6, 596:

equam (sonus),

id. ib. 2, 668:

artem (natura),

id. ib. 3, 158:

anum,

to assume the form of, id. ib. 3, 275; 6, 26; 11, 310; id. F. 4, 517; so,

Homeri illa Minerva simulata Mentori,

Cic. Att. 9, 8, 2 (cf. Hom. Od. 3, 22): simulata Troja, a counterfeit Troy, i. e. which is copied after, built like Troy, Ov. M. 13, 721:

simulata magnis Pergama,

Verg. A. 3, 349:

latices simulatos fontis Averni,

id. ib. 4, 512:

cupressum simulare,

to represent, paint, Hor. A. P. 20:

antrum in ostro,

Sil. 15, 430. —With object-clause: Pallas... simulat... terram Prodere cum baccis fetum canentis olivae, represents the earth producing, etc., Ov. M. 6, 80; cf.

also, transf., of a work of art: aera Fortis Alexandri vultum simulantia,

representing, imaging, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 241.—

In partic., to represent a thing as being which has no existence, to feign a thing to be what it is not (while dissimulare is to pretend a thing not to be which really is, to conceal), to assume the appearance of a thing, to feign, pretend, counterfeit, simulate (class. and freq.).

With acc. (in Cic. in the act. perh. only with a pron.):

nec ut emat melius, nec ut vendat, quicquam simulabit aut dissimulabit vir bonus,

Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61; cf. Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 4:

experiar, quid ames, quid simules,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 71:

(oportuit) non simulare mortem verbis, re ipsā spem vitae dare,

i.e. to pretend that she was dead, Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 23:

studium conjurationis vehementer simulare,

Sall. C. 41, 5:

deditionem ac deinde metum,

id. J. 36, 2:

diffidentiam rei,

id. ib. 60, 5:

pacem,

id. ib. 111, 4; cf.: pacem cum Scipione Sulla sive faciebat sive simulabat, Cic. Phil. 13, 1, 2:

constantiam,

Tac. H. 1, 81:

obsequium,

id. A. 12, 47 et saep.:

Hannibal aegrum simulabat,

pretended to be sick, Liv. 25, 8, 12:

sanum,

Ov. R. Am. 493:

furentem,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 429:

praegravem aut delumbem sese simulans,

Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 103:

supervacaneos,

Just. 6, 6, 3.—With pro:

simulat se pro uxore Nini filium, pro femina puerum,

Just. 1, 2, 1.— Pass.:

tum pol ego is essem vere, qui simulabar,

Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 58:

non simulatur amor,

Ov. H. 17, 36:

tecto lumine somnus,

id. ib. 21, 199:

ad simulanda negotia altitudo ingenii incredibilis,

Sall. J. 95, 3 et saep.—Esp. freq. in part. perf.:

ficto officio simulatāque sedulitate conjunctus,

Cic. Caecin. 5, 14:

officio simulato,

id. Rosc. Am. 38, 112:

simulatā amicitiā,

Caes. B. G. 1,44:

hortatur simulata conscientia adeant,

Tac. A. 2, 40 et saep.:

cum ex eo quaereretur, quid esset dolus malus? respondebat: cum esset aliud simulatum, aliud actum,

Cic. Off. 3, 14, 60:

in amicitiā nihil fictum est, nihil simulatum,

id. Lael. 8, 26; so (with fictum) id. ib. 18, 65; id. Off. 2, 12, 43;

with falsum,

id. de Or. 2, 45, 189; id. Phil. 11, 2, 5;

with fucata (opp. vera),

id. Lael. 25, 95:

simulato vecta juvenco,

Ov. Am. 1, 3, 23:

simulatae ordine justo exsequiae,

Sil. 16, 305.—

With object-clause (so most freq.):

qui omnia se simulant scire,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 168:

ille se Tarentum proficisci cum simulasset,

Cic. Clu. 9, 27:

illi reverti se in suas sedes simulaverunt,

Caes. B. G. 4, 4:

simulat Jove natus abire,

Ov. M. 2, 697; 4, 338 al.; Plaut. Aul. 3, 4, 4; id. Ep. 3, 2, 37; id. Bacch. 1, 1, 42; id. Rud. 5, 3, 43; id. Truc. prol. 18; 1, 1, 68 sq. al.:

id mirari te simulato,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 70; id. Hec. 1, 2, 109; 1, 2, 113; Afran. ap. Non. 511, 7; Cic. Imp. Pomp. 4, 9; id. Off. 1, 30, 108; id. Lael. 26, 99; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 13; Caes. B. C. 3, 21; Quint. 8, 2, 24:

simulandum est, quaedam nos dicere,

Quint. 4, 5, 20; cf.:

qui per ambitionem probos sese simulavere,

Sall. J. 85, 9:

adcurrit pedes ejus feta, praegravem, delumbem sese simulans,

Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 103; Just. 3, 1, 8:

simulans a Dareo se esse praemissum,

Curt. 4, 1, 29.— Pass.:

schema, quo aliud simulatur dici quam dicitur,

Quint. 9, 1, 14.—

With quasi (mostly Plautin.):

quasi affuerim simulabo atque audita eloquar,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 45; id. As. 4, 1, 51:

quasi militi animum adjeceris simulare,

id. Mil. 3, 3, 35; id. Pers. 4, 5, 5; cf.:

praefectus, quasi et ipse conterritus, simulans cuncta pavore compleverat,

Curt. 3, 13, 10. —

Absol.:

cur simulat?

Ter. And. 2, 3, 1; 1, 1, 21; 3, 4, 9:

non in perpetuom ut dares, Verum ut simulares,

id. Heaut. 4, 5, 34; Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 5, § 15:

simulandi gratiā,

Sall. J. 37, 4; Quint. 1, 3, 12; 6, 3, 85; Ov. M. 13, 299 al.— Impers. pass.:

quid est, quod amplius simuletur?

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 28.—Hence,

sĭmŭlans, antis, P. a.

Imitating, imitative:

non fuit in terris vocum simulantior ales (psittaco),

Ov. Am. 2, 6, 23.—

Sĭmŭlans, The Pretender, the title of a comedy of Afranius (v. the Fragm. Com. Rel. p. 172 sq. Rib.), Cic. Sest. 55, 118.— Advv.: sĭmŭlanter, feignedly, pretendedly, apparently (for the class. simulate):

simulanter revictā Charite,

App. M. 8, p. 205, 36.—

sĭmŭlātē, feignedly, pretendedly, not sincerely:

sive ex animo id fit sive simulate,

Cic. N. D. 2, 67, 168:

ficte et simulate,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 13.— Comp.: simulatius exit proditionis opus, Petr. poët. Fragm. 28, 4.

sĭmŭlo (less correctly sĭmĭlo; v. assimulo fin.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [similis].

In gen., to make a thing like another; to imitate, copy, represent a thing (mostly poet.;

syn. imitor): corpora igni simulata,

made like, like, Lucr. 1, 687:

nimbos et non imitabile fulmen simulare,

Verg. A. 6, 591:

simulet Catonem,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 13:

cum sint crura tibi, simulent quae cornua lunae,

Mart. 2, 35, 1:

furias Bacchi,

Ov. M. 6, 596:

equam (sonus),

id. ib. 2, 668:

artem (natura),

id. ib. 3, 158:

anum,

to assume the form of, id. ib. 3, 275; 6, 26; 11, 310; id. F. 4, 517; so,

Homeri illa Minerva simulata Mentori,

Cic. Att. 9, 8, 2 (cf. Hom. Od. 3, 22): simulata Troja, a counterfeit Troy, i. e. which is copied after, built like Troy, Ov. M. 13, 721:

simulata magnis Pergama,

Verg. A. 3, 349:

latices simulatos fontis Averni,

id. ib. 4, 512:

cupressum simulare,

to represent, paint, Hor. A. P. 20:

antrum in ostro,

Sil. 15, 430. —With object-clause: Pallas... simulat... terram Prodere cum baccis fetum canentis olivae, represents the earth producing, etc., Ov. M. 6, 80; cf.

also, transf., of a work of art: aera Fortis Alexandri vultum simulantia,

representing, imaging, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 241.—

In partic., to represent a thing as being which has no existence, to feign a thing to be what it is not (while dissimulare is to pretend a thing not to be which really is, to conceal), to assume the appearance of a thing, to feign, pretend, counterfeit, simulate (class. and freq.).

With acc. (in Cic. in the act. perh. only with a pron.):

nec ut emat melius, nec ut vendat, quicquam simulabit aut dissimulabit vir bonus,

Cic. Off. 3, 15, 61; cf. Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 4:

experiar, quid ames, quid simules,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 71:

(oportuit) non simulare mortem verbis, re ipsā spem vitae dare,

i.e. to pretend that she was dead, Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 23:

studium conjurationis vehementer simulare,

Sall. C. 41, 5:

deditionem ac deinde metum,

id. J. 36, 2:

diffidentiam rei,

id. ib. 60, 5:

pacem,

id. ib. 111, 4; cf.: pacem cum Scipione Sulla sive faciebat sive simulabat, Cic. Phil. 13, 1, 2:

constantiam,

Tac. H. 1, 81:

obsequium,

id. A. 12, 47 et saep.:

Hannibal aegrum simulabat,

pretended to be sick, Liv. 25, 8, 12:

sanum,

Ov. R. Am. 493:

furentem,

Sen. Herc. Oet. 429:

praegravem aut delumbem sese simulans,

Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 103:

supervacaneos,

Just. 6, 6, 3.—With pro:

simulat se pro uxore Nini filium, pro femina puerum,

Just. 1, 2, 1.— Pass.:

tum pol ego is essem vere, qui simulabar,

Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 58:

non simulatur amor,

Ov. H. 17, 36:

tecto lumine somnus,

id. ib. 21, 199:

ad simulanda negotia altitudo ingenii incredibilis,

Sall. J. 95, 3 et saep.—Esp. freq. in part. perf.:

ficto officio simulatāque sedulitate conjunctus,

Cic. Caecin. 5, 14:

officio simulato,

id. Rosc. Am. 38, 112:

simulatā amicitiā,

Caes. B. G. 1,44:

hortatur simulata conscientia adeant,

Tac. A. 2, 40 et saep.:

cum ex eo quaereretur, quid esset dolus malus? respondebat: cum esset aliud simulatum, aliud actum,

Cic. Off. 3, 14, 60:

in amicitiā nihil fictum est, nihil simulatum,

id. Lael. 8, 26; so (with fictum) id. ib. 18, 65; id. Off. 2, 12, 43;

with falsum,

id. de Or. 2, 45, 189; id. Phil. 11, 2, 5;

with fucata (opp. vera),

id. Lael. 25, 95:

simulato vecta juvenco,

Ov. Am. 1, 3, 23:

simulatae ordine justo exsequiae,

Sil. 16, 305.—

With object-clause (so most freq.):

qui omnia se simulant scire,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 168:

ille se Tarentum proficisci cum simulasset,

Cic. Clu. 9, 27:

illi reverti se in suas sedes simulaverunt,

Caes. B. G. 4, 4:

simulat Jove natus abire,

Ov. M. 2, 697; 4, 338 al.; Plaut. Aul. 3, 4, 4; id. Ep. 3, 2, 37; id. Bacch. 1, 1, 42; id. Rud. 5, 3, 43; id. Truc. prol. 18; 1, 1, 68 sq. al.:

id mirari te simulato,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 70; id. Hec. 1, 2, 109; 1, 2, 113; Afran. ap. Non. 511, 7; Cic. Imp. Pomp. 4, 9; id. Off. 1, 30, 108; id. Lael. 26, 99; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 13; Caes. B. C. 3, 21; Quint. 8, 2, 24:

simulandum est, quaedam nos dicere,

Quint. 4, 5, 20; cf.:

qui per ambitionem probos sese simulavere,

Sall. J. 85, 9:

adcurrit pedes ejus feta, praegravem, delumbem sese simulans,

Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 103; Just. 3, 1, 8:

simulans a Dareo se esse praemissum,

Curt. 4, 1, 29.— Pass.:

schema, quo aliud simulatur dici quam dicitur,

Quint. 9, 1, 14.—

With quasi (mostly Plautin.):

quasi affuerim simulabo atque audita eloquar,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 45; id. As. 4, 1, 51:

quasi militi animum adjeceris simulare,

id. Mil. 3, 3, 35; id. Pers. 4, 5, 5; cf.:

praefectus, quasi et ipse conterritus, simulans cuncta pavore compleverat,

Curt. 3, 13, 10. —

Absol.:

cur simulat?

Ter. And. 2, 3, 1; 1, 1, 21; 3, 4, 9:

non in perpetuom ut dares, Verum ut simulares,

id. Heaut. 4, 5, 34; Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 5, § 15:

simulandi gratiā,

Sall. J. 37, 4; Quint. 1, 3, 12; 6, 3, 85; Ov. M. 13, 299 al.— Impers. pass.:

quid est, quod amplius simuletur?

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 28.—Hence,

sĭmŭlans, antis, P. a.

Imitating, imitative:

non fuit in terris vocum simulantior ales (psittaco),

Ov. Am. 2, 6, 23.—

Sĭmŭlans, The Pretender, the title of a comedy of Afranius (v. the Fragm. Com. Rel. p. 172 sq. Rib.), Cic. Sest. 55, 118.— Advv.: sĭmŭlanter, feignedly, pretendedly, apparently (for the class. simulate):

simulanter revictā Charite,

App. M. 8, p. 205, 36.—

sĭmŭlātē, feignedly, pretendedly, not sincerely:

sive ex animo id fit sive simulate,

Cic. N. D. 2, 67, 168:

ficte et simulate,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 13.— Comp.: simulatius exit proditionis opus, Petr. poët. Fragm. 28, 4.

suspĭcĭo, spexi, spectum, 3, v. a. and n. [sub-specio].

To look up or upwards, to look up at a thing.

Lit.:

cum caelum suspeximus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 4; cf. id. ib. 2, 18, 49:

caelum,

Suet. Tit. 10:

summum de gurgite caelum,

Ov. M. 11, 506:

astra,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 25, 62:

ramos,

Ov. M. 14, 660:

pisces qui neque videntur a nobis neque ipsi nos suspicere possunt,

Cic. Ac. 2, 25, 81. — Poet.: nubes suspexit Olympus, looked up at, i. e. rose into the clouds, Luc. 6, 477: quae tuam matrem (i. e. Pleiadem) tellus a parte sinistrā Suspicit, which looks, i. e. is situated towards, Ov. M. 2, 840:

suspexit in caelum,

Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9; 3, 2, 3.— Absol.:

nec suspicit nec circumspicit,

Cic. Div. 2, 34, 72:

formare vultus, respicientes, suspicientesque et despicientes,

Plin. 35, 8, 34, § 56.—

Trop.

In gen., to look up to a thing with the mind, to raise the thoughts up to:

nihil altum, nihil magnificum ac divinum suspicere possunt, qui, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 9, 32.—

In partic., to look up to with admiration, to admire, respect, regard, esteem, honor, etc. (opp. despicere, Sen. Vit. Beat. 25;

syn. stupeo): eos viros suspiciunt maximisque efferunt laudibus, in quibus, etc.,

Cic. Off. 2, 10, 36:

suspicit potentem humilis,

Vell. 2, 126, 2; Suet. Claud. 28:

eloquentiam,

Cic. Or. 28, 97:

naturam (with admirari),

id. Div. 2, 72, 148: honores praemiaque vestra, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 9, 2:

argentum et marmor vetus aeraque et artes,

Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 18.—

To look at secretly or askance; hence, by meton. (effectus pro causā), to mistrust, suspect (perh. only in participles; and most freq. in the part. perf.):

Bomilcar suspectus regi et ipse eum suspiciens,

Sall. J. 70, 1.—Hence, suspectus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to suspicio, II.), mistrusted, suspected; that excites suspicion.

Of persons, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 81:

habere aliquem falso suspectum,

id. ib. 3, 6, 43:

quo quis versutior et callidior est hoc invisior et suspectior detractā opinione probitatis,

Cic. Off. 2, 9, 34:

provincia de morbis,

Pall. 1, 16:

ne super tali scelere suspectum se haberet,

Sall. J. 71, 5:

in quādam causā suspectus,

Quint. 6, 3, 96:

in morte matris,

Suet. Vit. 14:

in eā (filiā),

id. Gram. 16; Tac. H. 1, 13:

suspectus societate consilii,

Vell. 2, 35, 3:

suspecti capitalium criminum,

Tac. A. 3, 60:

nimiae spei,

id. ib. 3, 29 fin.:

Licinius Proculus intimā familiaritate Othonis suspectus,

id. H. 1, 46:

aemulationis,

id. A. 13, 9:

proditionis,

Just. 5, 9, 12:

sceleris,

Curt. 6, 8, 3.—With dat.:

non clam me est, tibi me esse suspectam,

Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 1:

meis civibus suspectus,

Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 17; id. Quint. 4, 14:

cum filius jamjam patri suspectus esset de novercā,

id. Off. 3, 25, 94:

nomine neglegentiae suspectum esse alicui,

id. Fam. 2, 1, 1: suspectissimum quemque sibi haud cunctanter oppressit. Suet. Tit. 6.—With inf.:

suspectus consilia ejus fovisse,

Tac. H. 1, 46.—

Of things, concr. and abstr.:

(in tyrannorum vitā) omnia semper suspecta atque sollicita,

Cic. Lael, 15, 52:

(voluptas) invidiosum nomen est, infame, suspectum,

id. Fin. 2, 4, 12:

res,

Liv. 41, 24, 17:

ut quae suspecta erant, certa videantur,

Quint. 5, 9, 10:

in suspecto loco,

i. e. uncertain, critical, dangerous, Liv. 21, 7, 7:

in eā parte consedit, quae suspecta maxime erat,

Suet. Aug. 43:

lacus Ambiguis suspectus aquis,

Ov. M. 15, 333:

metuit accipiter Suspectos laqueos,

Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 51:

periculum,

Suet. Dom. 14:

suspectae horae (quartanae),

Sen. Ben. 6, 8, 1:

tumores,

Plin. 20, 6, 23, § 55:

aqua frigida,

id. 31, 6, 37, § 71:

promissum suspectius,

Quint. 5, 7, 14.—With dat.:

animi medicina pluribus suspecta et invisa,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 1, 1:

suspectam facit judici causam,

Quint. 5, 13, 51.— Neutr., with subject-clause:

crudele, suos addicere amores: Non dare, suspectum,

Ov. M. 1, 618.—

Act., suspicious, distrustful:

timidi et suspecti,

Cato, Dist. 4, 44; Amm. 29, 4, 5.

suspīcĭo (in good MSS. and edd. also suspītĭo; v. Brambach s. v.; Fleckeis. in Rhein. Mus. viii. p. 225 sqq.; and so always in Plaut. and Ter. acc. to Fleck., and in Cic. acc. to B. and K.; but cf. contra Corss. Ausspr. 2, 359 sq.), ōnis. f. [1. suspicio], mistrust, distrust, suspicion.

Lit.: improborum facta primo suspitio insequitur, [p. 1821] deinde sermo atque fama, tum accusator, tum judex, Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 50:

suspitionem et culpam ut ab se segregent,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 42:

tanta nunc suspitio de me incidit,

Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 7: redeunti ex ipsā re mi incidit suspitio;

hem, etc.,

id. And. 2, 2, 22:

in quā re nulla subest suspitio,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 10, 28:

erat porro nemo, in quem ea suspitio conveniret,

id. ib. 23, 65:

in quem ne si insidiis quidem interfectus esset, ulla caderet suspitio,

id. Att. 13, 10, 3:

suspitionem populi sensit moveri,

id. Rep. 2, 31, 54; cf. id. Fam. 2, 16, 2:

in suspitionem alicui venire,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 7, § 15; id. Fl. 33, 81; cf. Suet. Tib. 12:

in suspitionem cadere,

Cic. Phil. 11, 10, 24:

augetur Gallis suspicio,

Caes. B. G. 7, 45:

suspitionem levare atque ab se removere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 59, § 136:

aliquem suspitione exsolvere,

Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 26:

omnem offensionem suspitionis de aliquo deponere,

Cic. Fam. 13, 24, 2: suspitionem falsam saeviter ferre, Enn. ap. Non. 511, 5 (Trag. v. 349 Vahl.):

maligna insontem deprimit suspicio,

Phaedr. 3, 10, 36:

suspicione si quis errabit suā,

id. 3, prol. 45: audimus eum venisse in suspitionem Torquato de morte Pansae, Brut. ap. Cic. ad Brut. 1, 6, 2.— Plur.:

in amore haec omnia insunt vitia: injuriae, Suspitiones, inimicitiae,

Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 15:

multae causae suspitionum offensionumque dantur,

Cic. Lael. 24, 88:

cum ad has suspiciones certissimae res accederent,

Caes. B. G. 1, 19:

si minus honestas suspitiones injectas diluemus,

Cic. Inv. 1, 16, 22.—

With gen. obj.:

ne in suspitione ponatur stupri,

Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 27 (Ussing, suspicione):

in aliquem suspitionem amoris transferre,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 52:

alicui suspitionem ficte reconciliatae gratiae dare,

Cic. Fam. 3, 12, 4:

in suspitionem avaritiae venire,

id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 14:

in suspitionem conjurationis vocari,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 4, § 10:

qui in suspitionem incidit regni appetendi,

id. Mil. 27, 72:

belli subita suspitio,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 7, § 15:

expellere aliquem suspitione cognationis,

id. Rep. 2, 31, 54:

belli suspicione interpositā,

Caes. B. G. 4, 32:

dare timoris aliquam suspicionem,

id. ib. 7, 54:

habebit enim suspicionem adulterii,

Nep. Epam. 5, 5:

ea res minime firmam suspitionem veneni habet,

excites, Cic. Clu. 62, 174.—

With subject-clause:

suspitio est mihi, nunc vos suspicarier, etc.,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 149:

jam tum erat suspitio, Dolo malo haec fieri omnia,

Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 8:

addit fuisse suspitionem, veneno sibi conscivisse mortem,

Cic. Brut. 11, 43; cf. with quasi:

unde nata suspicio est, quasi desciscere a patre temptasset,

Suet. Tit. 5.—

Transf., in gen.

A notion, idea, suggestion (very rare; cf.:

opinio, conjectura): deorum,

Cic. N. D. 1, 23, 62: suspitione attingere intellegentiam aut maris aut terrae, id ib. 3, 25, 64:

suspitionem nullam habebam te rei publicae causā mare transiturum,

id. Att. 8, 11, D, 1.—

Objectively, an appearance, indication:

ne quam suspicionem infirmitatis daret,

Suet. Tib. 72:

nullā suspicione vulneris laesus,

Petr. 94 fin.:

mulsa quae suspicionem tantum possit habere dulcedinis,

Pall. Jan. 15, 8.