φανταστής

English (LSJ)

οῦ, ὁ,

   A one who makes a parade, boaster, Polem.Phgn. 27 codd. φαντᾰσ-τικός, ή, όν, able to produce the appearance of something, Pl.Sph.266d, 268c: ἡ -κή (sc. τέχνη), the art of producing appearances, opp. εἰκαστική, ib.236c; φ. ἐπιβολὴ τῆς διανοίας Epicur. Sent.24, cf. Ep. 1p.13U., Phld.Sign.Fr. 1 (pl.): τὸ φ. Arist.de An. 432a31, Plot.4.3.29: the imaginative faculty, faculty of being deluded by images, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.22. Adv. -κῶς, by means of mental images, Epicur.Nat.28.7; τυποῦσθαι M.Ant.3.16, S.E.M.7.373, cf. Jul.Or.5.164c, Syrian. in Metaph. 115.37, etc.