phantom Copy link Outline 1. sĭmŭlācrum2. phantasma, ătis, n. (Gk. φάντασμα; very rare)3. by circuml. vāna spĕcies • phantom: 1. sĭmŭlācrum: certain p.s strangely pale, quaedam s. modis pallentia miris, Lucr. 1, 124 (ex Ennio): the unsubstantial p.s of sleep, inania somni s., Ov. H. 9, 39: to frame (fancy) p.s of unsubstantial terror, simulacra et inanes metus fingere, Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 7. 2. phantasma, ătis, n. (Gk. φάντασμα; very rare): if Christ was a (mere) p. (acc. to the Docetae), si ph. fuit Christus, Tert. adv. Marc. 5, 7: Vulg. Marc. vi. 49 (where, as in Plin. Ep. 7, 27, init. it denotes a ghost). 3. by circuml. vāna spĕcies: cf. Hor. A. P. 7; inanis [ex metu, etc., ficta] imago, cf. Plin. l. c. § 1. (Spectrum = Gk. εἴδωλον, in Epicur. philos., see Cic. Fam. 15, 16.)