vision Copy link Outline I. The faculty or act of seeing1. vīsus, ūs2. vīsio3. aspectus, ūs (looking, also the sense of sight)4. conspectus, ūs (looking, view)5. prospectus, ūs (poet.)6. obtūtus, ūsII. A thing seen, apparition1. vīsus, ūs2. vīsum3. vīsio4. spĕcies (appearance)5. ĭmāgo, ĭnis (a shade, phantom)6. sĭmŭlacrum (a shade, phantom)7. somniumIII. Fig.1. somnium2. ĭmāgo (semblance, as opp. to substance) • vision: I. The faculty or act of seeing: 1. vīsus, ūs: Cic. ap. Plin. 7, 2, 2: Ov.: Quint.: v. sight. 2. vīsio: App. 3. aspectus, ūs (looking, also the sense of sight): they lose all power of v., a. omnino amittunt, Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 73: v. sight. 4. conspectus, ūs (looking, view): as far as v. extended, quo longissime c. oculi ferebant, Liv. 1, 18: v. sight, view. 5. prospectus, ūs (poet.): my v. scans the sea, aequora prospectu metior, Ov. H. 10, 28. 6. obtūtus, ūs: v. sight. Phr.: with oculi: v. gaze, eye. II. A thing seen, apparition: 1. vīsus, ūs: nightly v.s, nocturni v., Liv. 8, 6: terrified by the unexpected v., inopino territa visu, Ov. M. 4, 232. 2. vīsum: v.s in dreams, v. somniorum, Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 97: tell me what the v. portends, dic age, visa quid ista ferant, Ov. Am. 3, 5, 32. 3. vīsio: an external v., externa et adventicia v., Cic. Div. 2, 58, 120. 4. spĕcies (appearance): the same v. of a man is said to have appeared to both consuls, utrique consuli eadem dicitur visa s. viri, Liv. 8, 6: nocturnae s., id. 26, 19. 5. ĭmāgo, ĭnis (a shade, phantom): why dost thou delude thy son with empty v.s? quid natum falsis ludis i.? Virg. Aen. 1, 408: Tib. 3, 4, 56. 6. sĭmŭlacrum (a shade, phantom): empty v.s of sleep, s. inania somni, Ov. H. 9, 39: v. shade. 7. somnium: v. dream. III. Fig.: A creation of the imagination: 1. somnium: v.s of madmen, delirantium s., Cic. N. D. 1, 16, 42: v. dream. 2. ĭmāgo (semblance, as opp. to substance): a mere outline and v. of glory, adumbrata i. gloriae, Cic. Tusc. 3, 2, 3: v. shadow, semblance.