SENSE Copy link • SENSEThe faculty of perception, sensus, -ūs (e.g., oculorum; videndi, cernendi; aurium, audiendi). To make any impression on the senses, sensus movere: to soothe the senses, sensibus suaviter blandiri (Cic.): to be deprived of sense, sensu carere; sensibus captum esse: beyond the reach of the senses, quod in sensus non cadit; quod nullo sensu percipi potest: pleasures of sense, voluptates corporis (Cic., Fin., 1, 18); corporales voluptates (Sen., Ep., 78; ☞ not corporeae, which would be “corporeal, consisting of a body,” ex corpore constantes, Frotscher ad Muret., 1, 143). Understanding, mind, mens: animus: plur., senses; e.g., to be in one’s senses, compotem esse animi (Terentianus), mentis (Cic.); apud se esse (Terentianus); esse sana mente; mente constare; mente bona praeditum esse (Cic.): to be out of one’s senses, mentis non compotem esse (Cic.); animi non compotem esse; non esse apud se (Terentianus): to lose one’s senses, a mente deseri; mente capi (Cic.): to be hardly in one’s senses, dubiae sanitatis esse: to have lost one’s senses, mente captum esse; de or ex mente exiisse; mente alienata esse: to recover one’s senses, ad sanitatem reverti, resipiscere: are you in your senses? sati’n’ sanus es? I am in my senses, mens mihi integra, or sana, est. Will, animus: mens: voluntas: sensus. To take the sense of the country, populum in suffragium mittere. Opinion, sententia. Taste, relish, per ception, gustatus or voluntas alicujus rei (e.g., of beauty): figuratively by the verb; e.g., from a sense of their superiority, cum se superiores esse sentiant or sentirent: impressions on the senses [Vid: IMPRESSION]. Meaning, signification, sententia: vis: ratio (Cic.): sensus (Quint., Phaedrus, Sen., Gell.; ☞ but sententia is the best word; Vid: Klotz ad Cic., Tusc., 1, 36, 87). To attach a certain sense to a word, sententiam sub aliqua voce subjicere (Cic.): to ascertain the sense of every passage, cujusque loci sententiam assequi (Wyttenback): these words furnish a good sense, *verborum sententia satis bona est (☞ but not verba fundunt sensum satis bonum, which is not Latin): the word aemulatio is used in a good or bad sense, dupliciter dicitur aemulatio (Cic.): this name is found in both a good and a bad sense, nomen in laude et in vitio est (Cic.).