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(v. a.P. a.) : fingo, finxi, fictum, 3, v. a.Sanscr. dih-, dēhmi, smear; Gr. θιγ, θιγγάνω, 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.
* Trop.
* 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.
* In gen., to form, fashion, make: Ly. multa eveniunt homini quae 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. πλάττω), 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,Cic. 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.
* 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.
* Trop.
* 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.
* In gen., to form, fashion, make: Ly. multa eveniunt homini quae 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. πλάττω), 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,Cic. 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.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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