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|lshtext=<b>ex-cōgĭto</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,<br /><b>I</b> to [[find]] [[out]] by [[thinking]], to [[contrive]], [[devise]], [[invent]] (freq. and [[class]].; cf.: [[comminiscor]], [[simulo]], [[confingo]], [[fingo]], etc.): [[quid]] [[enim]] mali aut sceleris fingi aut excogitari potest, [[quod]] non [[ille]] conceperit? Cic. Cat. 2, 4, 7: ad haec [[igitur]] cogita, mi [[Attice]], vel [[potius]] excogita, id. Att. 9, 6, 7: [[quid]] [[igitur]] causae excogitari potest, [[cur]]? etc., id. Deiot. 7, 20: novam interregni ineundi rationem, id. Rep. 2, 12: aliquid dignum [[dono]] deorum aut efficere aut excogitare, id. ib. 3, 3, 4: [[multa]] [[praeterea]] [[generatim]] ad avaritiam excogitabantur, Caes. B. C. 3, 32, 1: aliquid ad ornatum portarum, etc., Hirt. B. G. 8, 51, 2: o callidos homines! o rem excogitatam! Cic. Or. 67, 225: [[quicquid]] [[omnino]] excogitari [[contra]] potest, Quint. 12, 8, 10: res ab illis dicta, non a nobis excogitata, id. 5, 13, 49: in rebus excogitandis (opp. gerendis), Nep. Them. 1 fin.—Impers. [[with]] ut: excogitatum est a quibusdam ut, etc., Nep. Att. 8, 3; cf. [[with]] a [[subject]]-[[sentence]]: cum recenti fico salis [[vice]] caseo vesci [[nuper]] excogitatum est, Plin. 15, 19, 21, § 82.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., to [[name]]: [[Alpes]] Poeninas, Amm. 15, 10, 9.—Hence, * excōgĭtātus, a, um, P. a., sought [[out]], [[choice]]: excogitatissimae hostiae, Suet. Calig. 22.