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A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory Of calling shapes, and beckning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable mens names On Sands, and Shoars, and desert Wildernesses.
Could be combined with an adjective in an ablative absolute expressing one's state of mind or intention, as in Catullus' obstinata mente perfer "endure it with a resolute mind" or Virgil's simulata mente locutam "spoken with false purpose". In some cases the combination simply expresses the manner in which a (mental) action is performed, as in Ovid's male sit tacita mente precare viro "silently pray for misfortune to befall her husband". Eventually this became a generalized adverbial construction, with clear examples documented by at least the eighth century AD (alterā mente "otherwise", sōlā mente "only") whence the Romance adverbial suffixes of the -mente type.
→ Interlingua: -mente(and from other Romance forms)
References
“mens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“mens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
mens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to attract universal attention: omnium animos or mentes in se convertere
to free one's mind from the influences of the senses: sevocare mentem a sensibus (De Nat. D. 3. 8. 21)
to be out of one's mind: mente captum esse, mente alienata esse
to possess great ability: intellegentia or mente multum valere
to grasp a thing mentally: animo, mente, cogitatione aliquid comprehendere, complecti
something comes into my mind: mihi in mentem venit alicuius rei
to fix all one's thoughts on an object: mentem in aliqua re defigere
to think over, consider a thing: agitare (in) mente or (in) animo aliquid
with the intention of..: eo consilio, ea mente, ut
nothing will ever make me forgetful of him: semper memoria eius in (omnium) mentibus haerebit
a man's soul breathes through his writings: alicuius mens in scriptis spirat
to upset a person: alicuius mentem turbare, conturbare, perturbare
to compose oneself with difficulty: mente vix constare (Tusc. 4. 17. 39)
to be calm, self-possessed: mente consistere
a good conscience: mens bene sibi conscia
to be tormented by remorse: (mens scelerum furiis agitatur)
superstition has taken possession of their souls: superstitio mentes occupavit (Verr. 4. 51. 113)
(ambiguous) to see with the mind's eye: oculis mentis videre aliquid
(ambiguous) to be of sane mind: mentis compotem esse
(ambiguous) to be of sound mind: sanae mentis esse
(ambiguous) to obscure the mental vision: mentis quasi luminibus officere (vid. sect. XIII. 6) or animo caliginem offundere
(ambiguous) innate ideas: notiones animo (menti) insitae, innatae
(ambiguous) to lose one's composure; to be disconcerted: de statu suo or mentis deici (Att. 16. 15)
(ambiguous) to lose one's head, be beside oneself: sui (mentis) compotem non esse
(ambiguous) enthusiasm: ardor, inflammatio animi, incitatio mentis, mentis vis incitatior
“mens”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
mens in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
“mens”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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