apparent Copy link Outline I. Visible, in sightII. Evident, clearIII. Seeming (as opposed to true, real) • apparent: I. Visible, in sight: aspectābĭlis (rare), Cic.: ăpertus, Cic.: v. visible, in sight. II. Evident, clear: ăpertus, mănĭfestus: v. evident, clear: esp. in phr. to be apparent: appāreo, ui, 2: what is right is a., what is expedient is yet in the dark, quid rectum sit, apparet; quid expediat, obscurum est, Cic.: v. to be evident. III. Seeming (as opposed to true, real): fictus, assimulatus, etc.: v. feigned, pretended. It may often be expressed by some case of species; as, when any a. advantage is presented, we are necessarily influenced by it, cum aliqua species utilitatis objecta est, nos commoveri necesse est, Cic.. Caesar had attached his opponents by a. clemency, Caesar adversarios clementiae specie devinxerat, Cic.: v. apparently.--Note. Not to be rendered by speciosus, which means handsome, showy.