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|lshtext=<b>fingo</b>: finxi, fictum, 3, v. a. Sanscr. dih-, dēhmi, [[smear]]; Gr. θιγ, [[θιγγάνω]]>, [[touch]]; [[whence]] [[figulus]], [[figura]], etc.; [[prop]]., to [[handle]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> To [[touch]], [[handle]], [[stroke]], [[touch]] [[gently]] ([[rare]]): mulcere alternos, et corpora fingere [[lingua]], Verg. A. 8, 634: [[saepe]] [[manus]] aegras manibus fingebat amicis, Ov. F. 5, 409.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Esp., to form, [[shape]], [[fashion]], [[frame]], [[make]] ([[class]].), [[whence]] also [[figulus]]: esse [[aliquam]] vim, quae finxerit, vel, ut tuo verbo utar, quae fabricata [[sit]] hominem, Cic. Ac. 2, 27, 87; cf.: ab [[aliquo]] deo ficti esse videantur, id. de Or. 1, 25, 115: fingere et construere nidos, [[build]], id. ib. 2, 6, 23: favos, id. Off. 1, 44, 157: ut [[illa]] [[bestia]] fetum ederet informem, lambendo postgea fingeret, etc., Gell. 17, 10, 3.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of the [[plastic]] [[art]], to form or [[fashion]] by [[art]] (in [[wax]], [[clay]], [[stone]], etc.), to [[mould]] or [[model]], as a [[statuary]]: quorum alterum fingere [[opinor]] e [[cera]] solitum esse, alterum esse pictorem, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 13, § 30; cf.: in ceris aut fictilibus figuris, id. N. D. 1, 26, 71: similitudines ex [[argilla]], Plin. 35, 12, 43, § 151; cf., [[sarcastically]]: hic [[homullus]], ex [[argilla]] et [[luto]] [[fictus]] [[Epicurus]], Cic. Pis. 25, 59: pocula de [[humo]], Ov. Tr. 2, 489: [[Alexander]] ab Apelle potissimum pingi et a Lysippo fingi volebat ... qui [[neque]] pictam [[neque]] fictam imaginem suam [[passus]] est esse, etc., Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 7; cf.: fingendi ars, of [[making]] statues, [[statuary]], id. de Or. 3, 7, 26: corpora fingendo pingendove efficere, Quint. 5, 12, 21.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With the [[access]]. [[notion]] of arranging, adorning, etc., to [[set]] to rights, [[arrange]]; to [[adorn]], [[dress]], [[trim]] ([[poet]]. syn.: componere, excolere, ornare): Bene cum lauta est ([[mulier]]), tersa, ornata, ficta est: infecta est [[tamen]], Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 4: cum se non finxerit ulli, Ov. R. Am. 341: [[isti]] ficti, compositi, crispi cincinni, Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 32; cf.: canas fingere comas, Tib. 1, 2, 92: comas [[presso]] pollice, Prop. 3, 10 (4, 9), 14; Ov. A. A. 1, 306; Mart. 6, 57; cf.: comas [[auro]], Stat. Th. 5, 228: crinem, Verg. A. 4, 148; cf. also Phaedr. 2, 2, 9: vitem putando, Verg. G. 2, 407 Forbig.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With the [[access]]. [[notion]] of [[untruth]], to [[alter]], [[change]], for the [[purpose]] of [[dissembling]]: hi [[neque]] [[vultum]] fingere, [[neque]] [[interdum]] lacrimas [[tenere]] poterant, Caes. B. G. 1, 39, 4; cf.: [[vultus]] [[quoque]] hominum fingit [[scelus]], i. e. makes men [[change]] [[countenance]], Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 14.<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen., to form, [[fashion]], [[make]]: Ly. [[multa]] eveniunt homini quae [[volt]], quae nevolt. Ph. Mentire, gnate, nam [[sapiens]] [[quidem]] pol ipsus fingit fortunam sibi, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 84; cf. the vv. foll.: [[natura]] fingit homines et creat imitatores et narratores facetos, Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 219: animos fingere, formare, id. Brut. 38, 142: cf.: moderari et fingere mentem ac voluntates, id. Leg. 3, 18, 40: ea quae nobis non possumus fingere, [[vultus]], [[facies]], [[sonus]], id. de Or. 1, 28, 127: formam totius rei publicae velim mittas, ex [[qua]] me fingere possim, [[regulate]] [[myself]], i. e. [[proceed]], [[act]], id. Att. 6, 3, 4; cf.: ad eorum (qui audiunt) [[arbitrium]] et nutum totos se fingunt et accommodant, id. Or. 8, 24: ea (verba) nos [[sicut]] mollissimam ceram ad [[nostrum]] [[arbitrium]] formamus et fingimus, id. de Or. 3, 45, 177; cf. also: arbitrio fingere, id. Brut. 79, 274: [[fortuna]] humana fingit artatque ut [[lubet]], Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 54; cf.: vitam [[subito]] flecti fingique posse, shaped, directed, Cic. Sull. 28, 79; cf. id. ib. 25, 69: jure erat [[semper]] [[idem]] [[voltus]], cum mentis, a [[qua]] is fingitur, nulla fieret [[mutatio]], id. Tusc. 3, 15, 31; cf.: circumspexit [[amictus]] et finxit [[vultum]], [[composed]], Ov. M. 4, 318: [[lingua]] vocem [[immoderate]] profusam fingit et terminat, forms, Cic. N. D. 2, 59, 149; cf.: Peripateticorum institutis commodius fingeretur [[oratio]], id. Brut. 31, 119: ego [[apis]] Matinae [[more]] modoque operosa [[parvus]] carmina [[fingo]] ([[like]] the Gr. [[πλάττω]]>), [[make]], [[compose]], Hor. C. 4, 2, 32: carmina, id. Ep. 2, 1, 227; id. A. P. 331; 240: [[versus]], id. ib. 382: poëmata, Suet. Tit. 3: opprobria in quemvis, Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 30.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With a [[double]] [[predicate]], to form, [[make]] [[into]] [[something]] or in a [[certain]] [[manner]]: finxit te ipsa [[natura]] ad honestatem, gravitatem ... ad omnes [[denique]] virtutes magnum hominem et excelsum, Cic. Mur. 29, 60: nec, si miserum [[fortuna]] Sinonem Finxit, vanum [[etiam]] mendacemque improba finget, Verg. A. 2, 79: (illum) spissae nemorum comae Fingent Aeolio carmine nobilem, Hor. C. 4, 3, 12: di [[bene]] fecerunt, inopis me quodque pusilli Finxerunt animi, id. S. 1, 4, 18: timui, mea me finxisse minora putarer Dissimulator opis propriae, to [[have]] lessened, i. e. [[purposely]] disparaged it, id. Ep. 1, 9, 8.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To form by [[instruction]], to [[instruct]], [[teach]], [[train]]: [[idem]] [[mire]] finxit filium, i. e. caused him to [[play]] his [[part]], Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 25; cf.: voce paterna Fingeris ad rectum, Hor. A. P. 367: fingitur artibus, id. C. 3, 6, 22: fingit equum tenera docilem cervice [[magister]] Ire viam, [[qua]] monstret [[eques]], id. Ep. 1, 2, 64.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To form mentally or in [[speech]], to [[represent]] in [[thought]], to [[imagine]], [[conceive]], [[think]], [[suppose]]; to [[sketch]] [[out]]: fingite animis ... fingite cogitatione imaginem hujus condicionis meae, etc., Cic. Mil. 29, 79; cf.: omnia quae cogitatione nobismet ipsi possumus fingere, id. N. D. 3, 18, 47: fingere [[animo]], id. de Sen. 12, 41: cf. also: [[animo]] et cogitatione, id. Tusc. 5, 24, 68: ex sua [[natura]] ceteros, to [[conceive]] of, id. Rosc. Am. 9, 26: [[quid]] [[magis]] exercitum dici aut fingi potest? id. Mil. 2, 5: [[maleficium]], id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116: tu, stulta, deos, tu fingis inania vera, Prop. 3, 20 (4, 19), 5: qui utilitatum [[causa]] fingunt amicitias, [[suppose]], Cic. Lael. 14, 51: principatum sibi [[ipse]] opinionis errore finxerat, had imagined to [[himself]], id. Off. 1, 8, 26: in summo oratore fingendo, in representing, sketching [[out]], id. Or. 2, 7: finge [[tamen]] te improbulum, Juv. 5, 72.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With [[double]] acc.: [[quod]] si qui me astutiorem fingit, Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 6: Tiresiam sapientem fingunt poetae ... at [[vero]] Polyphemum [[Homerus]] immanem finxit, id. Tusc. 5, 39, 115.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With an [[object]]-[[clause]], and in [[pass]]., [[with]] a [[subject]]-[[clause]]: finge, aliquem [[nunc]] fierisapientem, [[nondum]] esse, [[suppose]], Cic. Ac. 2, 36, 117: finge [[solum]] natum nothum, Quint. 3, 6, 100.—Ellipt.: interfecti [[aliqui]] sunt; finge a nobis, [[assume]], [[grant]], Liv. 39, 37, 11: fingamus Alexandrum dari nobis, Quint. 1, 1, 24: non omnia corpora fingunt in [[medium]] niti, Lucr. 1, 1083; cf. id. 2, 175: qui [[naufragus]] fingitur se suspendisse, Quint. 8, 5, 22: qui suos [[artus]] morsu lacerasset, fingitur in scholis [[supra]] se cubasse, id. 8, 2, 20.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Pregn., [[with]] the [[access]]. [[notion]] of creating by [[thinking]], to [[contrive]], [[devise]], [[invent]], [[feign]] [[something]] (esp. [[untrue]]): argento comparando fingere fallaciam, Plaut. As. 2, 1, 2; 4: fallacias, Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 22: fallaciam, id. And. 1, 3, 15; cf.: [[nonne]] ad senem [[aliquam]] fabricam fingit? id. Heaut. 3, 2, 34: fingit causas, ne det, [[sedulo]], id. Eun. 1, 2, 58: falsas causas ad discordiam, id. Hec. 4, 4, 71: si mihi [[aliquam]] (rem publicam), ut [[apud]] Platonem [[Socrates]], [[ipse]] finxero, Cic. Rep. 2, 1 fin.; cf. id. ib. 2, 11: ex eventis fingere, id. Fam. 6, 6, 4: (crimina) in istum fingere, id. Verr. 1, 5, 15: ea quae sunt in usu vitaque communi, non ea, quae finguntur aut optantur, id. Lael. 5, 18: in faciem moresque meos nova crimina fingis, Ov. H. 12, 177: fingere qui non visa potest, commissa tacere Qui nequit, Hor. S. 1, 4, 84: quaelibet in quemvis opprobria fingere, id. Ep. 1, 15, 30: finguntur et testamenta, Quint. 7, 4, 39: [[nemo]] dolorem fingit in hoc casu, Juv. 13, 132: qui sub obtentu monituum deorum scientes eos fingunt, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 15, 2, 6. —With [[double]] acc.: bonois se ac liberales, Sen. Ben. 4, 17, 3.—With inf.: ignorare fingit, Claud. in Eutrop. 2, 306.—Hence, fic-tus, a, um, P. a., [[feigned]], [[fictitious]], false: in [[amicitia]] [[nihil]] fictum est, [[nihil]] simulatum, Cic. Lael. 8, 26; cf. id. ib. 18, 65: ficto [[officio]] et simulata sedultiate conjunctus, id. Caecin. 5, 14: in re ficta (opp. in vera), id. Lael. 7, 24: falsum est id totum [[neque]] [[solum]] fictum, sed [[etiam]] [[imperite]] absurdeque fictum, id. Rep. 2, 15: commenticii et ficti dii, id. N. D. 2, 28, 70: [[fabula]], id. Off. 3, 9, 39: in rebus fictis et adumbratis, id. Lael. 26, 97: [[amor]], Lucr. 4, 1192: [[gemitus]], Ov. M. 6, 565: [[cunctatio]], Tac. A. 1, 46: ficto pectore fatur, Verg. A. 2, 107.—Poet. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]] also, of persons: pro [[bene]] [[sano]] Ac non incauto fictum astutumque vocamus, [[dissembling]], false, Hor. S. 1, 3, 62: alii fictum (eum), ingratum, immemorem loquuntur, Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 3; [[but]]: ficta pellice plorat, [[imaginary]], Juv. 6, 272.—Poet., subst.: fictum, i, n., [[deception]], [[fiction]]: ficti pravique [[tenax]], Verg. A. 4, 188: jam consumpserat omnem Materiam ficti, Ov. M. 9, 767.—Adverb.: fictumque in colla minatus, Crura subit, Stat. Th. 6, 876.—Adv.: [[ficte]], feignedly, [[fictitiously]]: [[ficte]] et [[simulate]] [[quaestus]] [[causa]] insusurrare, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 4, § 13: [[ficte]] reconciliata [[gratia]], id. Fam. 3, 12, 4.