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com-mĭniscor ( con-m-), mentus, 3, v. a. dep. [miniscor, whence also reminiscor, stem men, whence mens, memini; cf. Varr. L. L. 6, § 44] (lit. to ponder carefully, to reflect upon; hence, as a result of reflection; cf. 1. commentor, II.), to devise something by careful thought, to contrive, invent, feign.

(Class., of something untrue;

esp. freq. in Plaut.) Reperi, comminiscere, cedo calidum consilium cito,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 71:

fabricare quidvis, quidvis comminiscere,

id. As. 1, 1, 89:

mendacium,

id. Ps. 2, 3, 23:

dolum docte,

id. ib. 4, 7, 64:

maledicta,

id. Bacch. 4, 9, 58:

quid agam? aut quid comminiscar,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 7:

nec me hoc commentum putes,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 8: tantum scelus, * Quint. 5, 13, 30.—With relative - clause:

neque quo pacto celem probrum queo comminisci,

Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 30; 1, 1, 37:

fac Amphitruonem ab aedibus Ut abigas quovis pacto commentus sies,

id. Am. 3, 3, 24 (cf. infra, P. a.).—

Of philosophic fiction (cf. commenticius), as antith. to actual, real:

Epicurus monogrammos deos et nihil agentes commentus est,

Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 59; so,

occurrentia nescio quae,

id. Fin. 4, 16, 43:

quaedam,

id. Fat. 3, 5.—

In gen., to devise, invent, contrive:

nihil adversus tale machinationis genus parare aut comminisci oppidani conabantur,

Liv. 37, 5, 5:

id vectigal commentum alterum ex censoribus satis credebant,

id. 29, 37, 4:

novas litteras,

Suet. Claud. 41:

novum balinearum usum,

id. Calig. 37; Flor. 2, 6, 27:

Phoenices, litteras et litterarum operas, aliasque etiam artes, maria navibus adire, classe confligere, etc.,

Mel. 1, 12, 1:

excubias nocturnas vigilesque,

Suet. Aug. 30; id. Ner. 34; id. Vesp. 23.

P. a.: commentus, a, um, in pass. signif., devised, invented, feigned, contrived, fictitious:

dat gemitus fictos commentaque funera narrat,

Ov. M. 6, 565:

sacra,

id. ib. 3, 558; 4, 37; id. A. A. 1, 319:

crimen,

Liv. 26, 27, 8:

fraus,

Paul. Sent. 5, 4, 8.—Hence,

Subst.: commentum, i, n.

(Class.) An invention, fabrication, fiction, falsehood:

ipsis commentum placet,

Ter. And. 1, 3, 20:

opinionum commenta delet dies,

Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 5 (cf. just before:

opiniones fictas atque vanas): non sine aliquo commento miraculi,

Liv. 1, 19, 5:

mixta rumorum,

Ov. M. 12, 54:

animi,

id. ib. 13, 38.—

Since the Aug. per., sometimes, a contrivance, Liv. 29, 37, 6; Suet. Vesp. 18; Just. 22, 4, 3 al.—

Nefanda, a project, plan, Just. 21, 4, 3:

callidum,

Dig. 27, 9, 9. —

A stratagem, in war, Flor. 1, 11, 2.—

A rhetorical figure, equiv. to commentatio, = enthumêma, Vitellius ap. Quint. 9, 2, 107; cf. id. ib. 5, 10, 1.

com-mĭniscor ( con-m-), mentus, 3, v. a. dep. [miniscor, whence also reminiscor, stem men, whence mens, memini; cf. Varr. L. L. 6, § 44] (lit. to ponder carefully, to reflect upon; hence, as a result of reflection; cf. 1. commentor, II.), to devise something by careful thought, to contrive, invent, feign.

(Class., of something untrue;

esp. freq. in Plaut.) Reperi, comminiscere, cedo calidum consilium cito,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 71:

fabricare quidvis, quidvis comminiscere,

id. As. 1, 1, 89:

mendacium,

id. Ps. 2, 3, 23:

dolum docte,

id. ib. 4, 7, 64:

maledicta,

id. Bacch. 4, 9, 58:

quid agam? aut quid comminiscar,

Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 7:

nec me hoc commentum putes,

Cic. Att. 6, 1, 8: tantum scelus, * Quint. 5, 13, 30.—With relative - clause:

neque quo pacto celem probrum queo comminisci,

Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 30; 1, 1, 37:

fac Amphitruonem ab aedibus Ut abigas quovis pacto commentus sies,

id. Am. 3, 3, 24 (cf. infra, P. a.).—

Of philosophic fiction (cf. commenticius), as antith. to actual, real:

Epicurus monogrammos deos et nihil agentes commentus est,

Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 59; so,

occurrentia nescio quae,

id. Fin. 4, 16, 43:

quaedam,

id. Fat. 3, 5.—

In gen., to devise, invent, contrive:

nihil adversus tale machinationis genus parare aut comminisci oppidani conabantur,

Liv. 37, 5, 5:

id vectigal commentum alterum ex censoribus satis credebant,

id. 29, 37, 4:

novas litteras,

Suet. Claud. 41:

novum balinearum usum,

id. Calig. 37; Flor. 2, 6, 27:

Phoenices, litteras et litterarum operas, aliasque etiam artes, maria navibus adire, classe confligere, etc.,

Mel. 1, 12, 1:

excubias nocturnas vigilesque,

Suet. Aug. 30; id. Ner. 34; id. Vesp. 23.

P. a.: commentus, a, um, in pass. signif., devised, invented, feigned, contrived, fictitious:

dat gemitus fictos commentaque funera narrat,

Ov. M. 6, 565:

sacra,

id. ib. 3, 558; 4, 37; id. A. A. 1, 319:

crimen,

Liv. 26, 27, 8:

fraus,

Paul. Sent. 5, 4, 8.—Hence,

Subst.: commentum, i, n.

(Class.) An invention, fabrication, fiction, falsehood:

ipsis commentum placet,

Ter. And. 1, 3, 20:

opinionum commenta delet dies,

Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 5 (cf. just before:

opiniones fictas atque vanas): non sine aliquo commento miraculi,

Liv. 1, 19, 5:

mixta rumorum,

Ov. M. 12, 54:

animi,

id. ib. 13, 38.—

Since the Aug. per., sometimes, a contrivance, Liv. 29, 37, 6; Suet. Vesp. 18; Just. 22, 4, 3 al.—

Nefanda, a project, plan, Just. 21, 4, 3:

callidum,

Dig. 27, 9, 9. —

A stratagem, in war, Flor. 1, 11, 2.—

A rhetorical figure, equiv. to commentatio, = enthumêma, Vitellius ap. Quint. 9, 2, 107; cf. id. ib. 5, 10, 1.

māchĭnātĭo, ōnis, f. [machinor], artificial contrivance, mechanism, machinery (class.).

Lit.:

cum machinatione quadam moveri aliquid videmus, ut sphaeram,

Cic. N. D. 2, 38, 97:

data est quibusdam bestiis machinatio quaedam, et sollertia,

power of contrivance, design, id. ib. 2, 48, 123.—

Transf. (abstr. pro concreto), a machine, engine:

tantae altitudinis machinationes,

Caes. B. G. 2, 31:

tanta,

id. ib. 2, 30;

4, 17: navalis,

id. B. C. 2, 10: tale machinationis [p. 1093] genus, Liv. 37, 5.—

Trop., a trick, device, machination, contrivance; artifice, fraud:

judex tamquam machinatione aliqua tum ad severitatem, tum ad remissionem animi est contorquendus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 17, 72:

dolus malus est omnis calliditas, fallacia, machinatio ad circumveniendum, fallendum, decipiendum alterum adhibita,

Dig. 4, 3, 1; 14:

per machinationem obligatus,

by artifice, by fraud, ib. 45, 1, 36.