IMAGINE Copy link • IMAGINEForm a representation in the mind, animo cogitare, concipere, complecti; also, cogitare only: animo fingere, effingere: cogitatione fingere or depingere (to form an image of anything in the mind): proponere sibi ante oculos animumque (to place clearly before one’s mind and eyes). Conjecture, conjectura informare; also, conjicere only (to conjecture): imaginari belongs to Silver Age. To entertain an unfounded notion, opinari: in opinione esse (to be of opinion): putare (to think; without going deeply into the question): induisse sibi falsam alicujus rei persuasionem (Quint., 1, 1, 8): somniare (to dream): sibi persuadere (penuade one’s self). No one has imagined that, etc., nemo in opinionem venit, fore ut, etc.: no one imagined that, etc., nemini in opinionem veniebat, with accusative and infinitive (e.g., Antonium rerum potiturum, Nep.). I imagine, opinio mea est or fert; videor mini, with nominative and infinitive (e.g., a principio amens fuisse), or with infinitive. I just now imagined that I heard the soldier’s voice, audire vocem visa sum modo militis (Terentianus). “I imagine,” inserted parenthetically; opinor: ut opinor: credo (credo, like ὡς ἔοικεν, implies irony, the proposition it is applied to being absurd or self-evident; puto or ut puto, inserted so that the clause is not made dependent, is classical but rare; Vid: Cic., 12, 49, 1; caelius, Cic., Fam., 8, 3, 3; Vatin., Cic., Fam., 5, 1, 9: Krebs). To cause anybody to imagine, adducere aliquem in opinionem; opinione aliquem imbuere; opinionem alicui inserere. Think, putare: arbitrari: reri. [Vid: THINK.] Contrive (devices, etc.), excogitare: fingere: comminisci: machinari: coquere: concoquere. To imagine deceit, dolos nectere, procudere (comedy).