seem (v.) Copy link • seem (v.): vĭdeor, vīsus, 2: foll. by nom. in apposition or infin. mood: the death of those men s.s happy, illorum beata mors v., Cic. Am. 7, 23: they s. (as it were) to banish the sun from the world, solem e mundo tollere videntur, ib. 13, 47. N.B.--Videor is rarely impersonal, the personal constr. being preferred: e. g. it seems to me that you are a passionate man, stomachosus esse videris (Kr.): rather than videtur mihi te (L. G. § 232, Obs.): except when videtur = it seems good (tibi si videbitur, villis iis utere).
SEEM Copy link • SEEMvideri. The impersonal form “it seems” is mostly translated personally; “it seems that our friends will not come,” amici nostri non venturi videntur. To seem in anybody’s eyes, judicio alicujus esse; ab aliquo existimari; videri alicui; esse apud aliquem: it seems to me that you are a passionate person, stomachosus esse videris: it does not seem so to me, non ita mihi videtur: it does not seem to me that, etc., non mihi videtur (with accusative and infinitive): to seem to one’s self, sibi videri