remembrance Copy link Outline 1. rĕcordātio2. mĕmŏria (strictly, the faculty of memory, but oft. used for r.)3. commĕmŏrātio (a reminding, calling to mind)4. rĕtĭnentia • remembrance: 1. rĕcordātio: a pleasant r., grata r., Cic. Planc. 33, 81: to enjoy the r. of friendship, recordatione amicitiae frui, id. Am. 4, 15: the r. of a bygone event, veteris memoriae r., id. de Or. 1, 2, 4: the tranquil r. of past suffering affords pleasure, habet praeteriti doloris secura r. delectationem, id. Fam. 5, 12, 4. Join: memoria et r., id. Brut. 2, 9. 2. mĕmŏria (strictly, the faculty of memory, but oft. used for r.): to perpetuate the r., m. prodere, Caes. B. G. 1, 13, extr.: he lives and will live in the r. of every age, vivit, vivetque per omnium seculorum memoriam, Vell. 2, 66, 5: within the r. of man, post hominum memoriam, Cic. Cat. 1, 7, 16: it often happened both within the r. of our forefathers and our own, persaepe et nostra et patrum memoria accidit, id. Fontei. 7, 13. 3. commĕmŏrātio (a reminding, calling to mind): the r. of our name, c. nominis nostri, Cic. Arch. 11., 29. 4. rĕtĭnentia: Lucr. 3, 673; (ib. 3, 849, where al. repetentia). Phr.: to hold kindnesses in grateful r., beneficia meminisse, Cic. Planc. 33, 80: the r. grows faint and dim, meminisse jacet languetque sopore, Lucr. 4, 763.