civitas Platonis commenticia– Plato's ideal republic.
illa civitas, quam Plato finxit– Plato's ideal republic.
4. Opinion – Prejudice – Conjecture
in sententia manere, permanere, perseverare, perstare– to abide by, persist in one's opinion.
illud, hoc teneo– I abide by this opinion.
a sententia sua discedere– to give up one's opinion.
de sententia sua decedere– to give up one's opinion.
(de) sententia desistere– to give up one's opinion.
de sententia deici, depelli, deterreri– to be forced to change one's mind.
de sententia aliquem deducere, movere– to make a man change his opinion.
aliquem ad suam sententiam perducere or in suam sententiam adducere– to win a man over to one's own way of thinking.
ad alicuius sententiam accedere, sententiam alicuius sequi– to adopt some one's opinion.
idem sentire (opp. dissentire ab aliquo) – to hold the same views.
sententiam suam aperire 91– to freely express one's opinions.
sententiam fronte celare, tegere– not to betray one's feelings by one's looks.
dic quid sentias 92– give me your opinion.
in hac sum sententia, ut…putem– I think that…
plura in eam sententiam disputare– to discuss a subject more fully on the same lines.
ut mea fert opinio– according to my opinion.
ut mihi quidem videtur– according to my opinion.
mea (quidem) sententia– according to my opinion.
quot homines, tot sententiae– many men, many minds.
opiniones falsas animo imbibere– to be imbibing false opinions.
opinionibus falsis imbui– to be imbibing false opinions.
opinionis error– erroneous opinion.
opinio praeiudicata, also simply opinio (not praeiudicium = a preliminary decision) – prejudice.
opinio confirmata, inveterata– a rooted opinion.
opinionum pravitate infici– to be filled with absurd prejudices.
opinionum commenta (N. D. 2. 2. 5) – chimeras.
monstra or portenta– marvellous ideas; prodigies.
coniectura assequi, consequi, aliquid coniectura colligere– to conjecture.
quantum ego coniectura assequor, auguror– as far as I can guess.
coniecturam alicuius rei facere or capere ex aliqua re– to infer by comparison, judge one thing by another.
de se (ex se de aliis) coniecturam facere– to judge others by oneself.
aliquid in coniectura positum est– it is a matter of conjecture, supposition.
aliquid coniectura nititur, continetur (Div. 1. 14. 24) – it is a matter of conjecture, supposition.
probabilia coniectura sequi– to try to conjecture probabilities.
aliquid mihi nec opinanti, insperanti accidit– a thing has happened contrary to my expectation.
5. Truth – Error
verum dicere, profiteri– to speak the truth, admit the truth.
omnia ad veritatem 93 dicere– to be truthful in all one's statements.
veritatis amans, diligens, studiosus– truthful; veracious.
a vero aversum esse (Catil. 3. 1. 29) – to be averse to truth.
a veritate deflectere, desciscere– to swerve from the truth.
veri videndi, investigandi cupiditas– love of truth.
veri inquisitio atque investigatio– zealous pursuit of truth.
a vero abduci– to be led away from the truth.
proxime ad verum accedere– to be very near the truth.
a vero non abhorrere– to be probable.
veri simile esse– to be probable.
haec speciosiora quam veriora sunt– this is more plausible than true.
vera et falsa (a falsis) diiudicare– to distinguish true and false.
vera cum falsis confundere– to confuse true with false.
veritas– veracity.
re (vera), reapse (opp. specie) – in truth; really.
in errore versari– to be mistaken.
magno errore teneri– to be in gross error, seriously misled.
in magno errore versari– to be in gross error, seriously misled.
vehementer errare– to be in gross error, seriously misled.
erroribus implicari (Tusc. 4. 27. 58) – to fall into error.
per errorem labi, or simply labi– to take a false step.
aliquem in errorem inducere, rapere– to lead a person into error.
errorem animo imbibere– to get a mistaken notion into the mind.
errorem cum lacte nutricis sugere (Tusc. 3. 1. 2) – to imbibe error from one's mother's breasts.
error longe lateque diffusus– a wide-spread error.
errorem tollere– to banish an error, do away with a false impression.
errorem amputare et circumcīdere– to banish an error, do away with a false impression.
errorem stirpitus extrahere– to totally eradicate false principles.
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