coniectura
Τί ὕπνος; Καμάτων ἀνάπαυσις, ἰατρῶν κατόρθωμα, δεδεμένων λύσις, ἀγρυπνούντων σοφία, νοσούντων εὐχή, θανάτου εἰκών, ταλαιπωρούντων ἐπιθυμία, πάσης πνοῆς ἡσυχία, πλουσίων ἐπιτήδευμα, πενήτων ἀδολεσχία, καθημερινὴ μελέτη. → What is sleep? Rest from toil, the success of physicians, the release of those who are bound, the wisdom of the wakeful, what sick men pray for, an image of death, the desire of those who toil in hardship, the rest of all the spirit, a principal occupation of the rich, the idle chatter of poor men, a daily object of concern.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
conjectūra: ae, f. conicio, I. B. 2., a putting together of facts or indications; hence
I an opinion founded on a comparison of facts, a conjecture, guess, conjectural inference.
I In gen. (very freq., and class.): quod ad exemplum'st? Conjecturā si reperire possumus, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 76: hanc ego de me conjecturam domi facic, id. Cist. 2, 1, 2; id. Cas. 2, 3, 8; Cic. de Or. 2, 74, 299: conjecturam facere (ex re or re), Plaut. Poen. prol. 91; id. Rud. 3, 4, 66; Ter. And. 3, 2, 32; id. Heaut. 2, 3, 25; Cic. Mur. 21, 44; id. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 183: attendite num aberret a conjecturā suspitio periculi mei, i. e. reasonable inference, id. Phil. 12, 9, 23; Quint. 8, 4, 26; Plin. Pan. 20 fin.: capere ex re, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 32: capere, Cic. Rosc. Am. 35, 98: hoc videre licet ex aliquot rebus, Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 3: conjecturā uti, Quint. 3, 6, 15: judicare aliquid, Cic. Fl. 3, 6: coarguere aliquid, id. Agr. 1, 6, 18: quaerere aliquid, id. Or. 36, 126; cf.: quaeritur per conjecturam, Quint. 7, 2, 6: conjecturā aberrare, Cic. Att. 14, 22, 1: in conjecturam quantitas cadit, Quint. 7, 4, 43: aliquid conjecturā animi scrutari, Plin. 2, 11, 8, § 49; cf.: animi mei, Quint. 1, 2, 25: si qua conjectura mentis divinae sit (gen. object.), Liv. 10, 39, 15; so, mentis, Quint. 7, 3, 25: animi, id. 7, 2, 6; 7, 2, 45: voluntatis, id. 12, 2, 19: veritatis, Suet. Galb. 7 et saep.—
II In partic.
A T. t. of the lang. of augury, a conclusion drawn from signs or omens, a divining, an interpreting of dreams, soothsaying, prophesying, Plaut. Rud. 3, 1, 20; id. Curc. 2, 1, 31; Cic. Div. 2, 31, 66; 1, 36, 78; 2, 63, 129; Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 51; Suet. Vit. 18.—
B An element of rhetorical representation founded on conjecture, Cic. Inv. 2, 5, 16; id. Part. Or. 9, 33 sq.; id. Div.. 2, 26, 55; Quint. 7, 2, 1; 3, 6, 50; cf.: in his omnibus conjecturam inducere, the form of conjecture, Cic. Inv. 2, 32, 99.
