feeling (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Sensibility to outward phaenomena1. tactus, ūs (the sense of touch)2. sensus, ūs, (most gen. termII. An emotion, state of mind1. sensus, ūs2. affectus, ūs3. ănĭmus (the f.s collectively4. hūmānĭtas (refined, kindly f.)5. jūdĭcium (in matters of taste)6. flētus, ūs (lit. weeping • feeling (subs.): I. Sensibility to outward phaenomena: 1. tactus, ūs (the sense of touch): Cic. N. D. 2, 56, 141: v. touch. 2. sensus, ūs, (most gen. term: of any kind of sensibility): to be without life and f., vita et s. carere, Cic.: v. sensation. II. An emotion, state of mind: 1. sensus, ūs: my own f.s tell me how great is the force of fraternal affection, meus me s.quanta vis fraterni amoris admonet, Cic. Fam. 5, 2, fin.: there was but one f. on the part of all good men, unus s. fuit omnium bonorum, Cic.: the general f.s of mankind, communis hominum s., Cic. Or. 2, 16, 68: Hor.: to appeal to the f.s, sensus (hominum) implorare, Cic. Sull. 23, 64. 2. affectus, ūs: the f. (emotion) of love, fear, af. amoris, metus, Quint. (v. affection): she hesitates with divided f.s, dubiis af. haeret, Ov. Met. 8, 473. 3. ănĭmus (the f.s collectively: esp. with ref. to anger): to control one's f.s (temper), animum regere, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 62: he was the first to paint the expression of men's f.s, primus animum pinxit et sensus hominum expressit, Plin. 35, 10, 19: they do not know what our f.s towards each other are, quo a. inter nos simus ignorant, Cic. Fam. 3, 6, 1. 4. hūmānĭtas (refined, kindly f.): a man of great refinement of f., singulari h. vir, Cic.: to have put off all human f., omnem h. exuisse, Cic. Lig. 5, 14. Join: obdurescere atque h. exuere, Cic. Att. 13, 2. 5. jūdĭcium (in matters of taste): v. taste, judgment. 6. flētus, ūs (lit. weeping: hence tearful emotion): with what f. did he speak of ..., quanto cum f. de ... egit, Cic. Sext. 57, 121 (v. Nägels, p. 38): v. tears. Phr.: to be without f., omnino durum, inhumanum esse: v. unfeeling: and cf. supr. (4).