fact Copy link Outline I. Actual circumstance, reality (q. v.)II. Deed, transaction • fact: I. Actual circumstance, reality (q. v.): res, rĕi, f.: we ought to consider the f., not mere words, rem spectari non verba oportet, Cic.: let us ascertain, not merely all f.s, but even rumours, non modo res omnes, sed etiam rumores cognoscamus, Cic.: they say that these are gods not in f. but in mere opinion, hos deos non re sed opinione esse dicunt, Cic. II. Deed, transaction: factum: to pass from fables to f.s, ut a fabulis ad facta veniamus, Cic.: a question of f., controversia facti, Cic. Phr.: such being the f.s of the case, quae cum ita sint, Cic.: Caes.