fiction Copy link Outline 1. commentum (a mere invention)2. fābula [histŏria] ficta et commenticia3. fictum (deception) • fiction: 1. commentum (a mere invention): the f.s of fancy time demolishes, opinionum commenta delet dies, Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 5: some f. of a marvel, c. aliquid miraculi, Liv. 1, 19. 2. fābula [histŏria] ficta et commenticia: Cic. Off. 3, 9, 39: or with only one of the adjj.?: v. fictitious. 3. fictum (deception): cf. Ov. M. 9, 767. Phr.: he blends f. with truth, veris falsa remiscet, Hor. A. P. 151: to frame f.s, mentiri (poet.), Hor. l. c.: a f. of the poets, (res) a poetis ficta, Lact. 1, 21, ad fin.: the story is an entire f., *mera fabula est; omnino ficta, commenticia historia est: a legal f., legis f., Paul. Dig. 41, 3, 15. (N.B. Not fictio, except in the special sense given: though Lact. has fictiones poetarum, 1, 21, ad fin.)