memory Copy link Outline I. The facultyII. Remembrance1. mĕmŏria2. rĕcordātio (act of calling to mind)III. The time that can be rememberedIV. Exemption from oblivion • memory: I. The faculty: mĕmŏria: to have a good m., esse m. bona, Cic. Att. 8, 4, med.; firma, Quint. 11, 2, 18: so good a m., tanta m., Cic. Br. 88, 301: m., most retentive (in youth), m. tenacissima, Quint. 11, 1, 19: slow, failing m., m. segnis et lenta, Sen. Ep. 74, init.: natural and artificial m., m. naturalis, artificiosa, Auct. Her. 3, 16, 28: to exercise the m., m. exercere, Cic. Sen. 6, extr.: to impress anything upon the m., aliquid memoriae mandare, Cic. Quint. 6, 25 (quaeso ut eum diem memoriae mandetis, i. e. make an effort to remember it: to commit to m., is edisco: v. to learn I., 1, 2): to retain in the m., aliquid memoriâ tenere, Cic. Sen. 4, fin.: also, memoriâ complecti, id. Div. 2, 71, 146; custodire, id. de Or. 1, 28, 127: m. fails one, memoriâ deficitur (aliquis), Col. 7, 9, ad fin.: so, memoriâ falli, Plin. 10, 42, 59: cf. Cic. Att. 12, 1, memoriolâ vacillare (to find one's m. giving way): to state from m., ex m. exponere, id. Cat. 3, 6, 13. Phr.: a liar ought to have a good m., mendacem memorem esse oportet, Prov. in Quint. 4, 2, 91: to recite from m., memoriter pronuntiare, Cic. de Or. 1, 19, fin.: to be effaced from the m., ex animo effluere, ib. 2, 74, 300 (v. to forget). II. Remembrance: 1. mĕmŏria: to wipe out all m. of discord, omnem m. discordiarum delere, Cic. Ph. 1, init.: to recal the m. of childhood, pueritiae m. recordari, id. Arch. init.: v. remembrance. 2. rĕcordātio (act of calling to mind): v. recollection. III. The time that can be remembered: mĕmŏria: in the m. of our fathers, memoria patrum nostrorum, Caes. B. G. 1, 12: never in the m. of man, (nunquam) post hominum m., Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 16. IV. Exemption from oblivion: Phr.: to consign to m., memoriae tradere, prodere: v. to record.