VISION Copy link • VISIONSight, visus, -ūs: aspectus, -ūs: conspectus, -ūs, or by circumlocution with oculi. An apparition, res objecta (that which presents itself to the eye, Cic., Acad., 2, 12, 38; 14, 48): visum (anything seen, a sight): visa species (a form which one believes he has seen, whether awake or in a dream): simulacrum (an apparition. ☞ Not spectrum, which is = εἴδωλον in the language of the Stoics; Vid: Cic., ad Div., 15, 16, 2) [Vid: also, APPARITION.] A chimera, delirantis somnium: aberrantis animi mera deliria: commentum (a fiction).