reality Copy link Outline 1. res, rĕi, f.2. vērĭtas3. res vēra or verum • reality: 1. res, rĕi, f.: philosophers differing in terms, but agreeing in r., nominibus differentes, re congruentes: Cic. Acad. 1, 5, 15: I ask you to regard r. as more important than speech, rogo ut rem potiorem oratione ducas, id. Fam. 11, 28: existing, not in r. but in idea, non re sed opinione, id. N. D. 3, 21, 53: when you have drawn your mind from the ideal of virtue to its r., quum animum ab ista pictura imaginibusque virtutum ad rem veritatemque traduxeris, Cic. Tusc. 5, 5, 14. 2. vērĭtas: in everything r. is superior to imitation, in omni re vincit imitationem veritas, id. de Or. 3, 57, 215. 3. res vēra or verum: res vera opp. to ficta, id. Am. 7, 24: do not doubt, for you see realities, ne dubita, nam vera vides, Virg. Aen. 3, 316: v. truth. Phr.: to become a r., ad effectum adduci, Liv. 33, 33: quum ventum ad verum est, Hor. S. 1, 3, 97: in reality, re vera, Cic. Quint. 2: reipsa, Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 23: reapse (i. e. reipsa): cf. formae, quae reapse nullae sunt speciem autem offerunt, Cic. Div. 1, 37, 80: v. Sen. Ep. 108, 31, who remarks on this form; v. really.