The highest and chief part of the soule. The minde: the wil: the intent: memorie: aduise: counsel. Nullam mentem animi habeo. Pla. I am cleane beside my self. Mala mens malus animus. Terent. A wicked will and mischienous minde. Vna mens omnibus. Virg. They were al of one wil or minde. Ego autem defenderem bac eum mente fuisse, &c. Cic. I would defende that he was of that minde and opinion. Nostram nunc accipe mentem. Virg. Heare nowe my aduise or counsaile. O dij immortales, quid interest inter mentes hominum & cogitationes. Cic. Vt veslræ mentes atque sententiæ cum. Pop. Rom. voluntate suffiagijsq; consentiant Cicero. That your iudgementes and opinions may agree with. Mens & voluntas. Cic. In querelis mens, Vide IN præpositionem. Anxius mentem. Stat. Agitatio mentis. Quint. Exercise of the witte. Alienatio mentis. Plin. Madnesse. Mentis compos, Idem quod sanæ mentis, vel suæ mentis. Cicer. Wel in his wittes: of whole minde and persite remembrance. Discordia mentis. Ouid. Contrarye passions of minde. Exul mentis. Ouid. Dut of his witte: beside himselfe. Vertitur facies & mentis & oris. Ouid. Ferox mentis. Ouid. Gaudia mala mentis. Virg. Mentis inops. Ouid. Doubtfull and vncertaine what to doe, also of base courage. Integer mentis, Vide INTEGER. Discipuli præceptores suos, parentes esse non quidem corporum, sed mentium credant. Quint. Non potens mentis. Sen. Sacraria mentis. Stat. Præsagia mentis. Oui. Templa mentis. Lucre. Quæstio mentis. Quin. Tumultus mentis. Hor. Ruina mentis. Ouid. Vitium mentis. Ouid. Adultera mens. Ouid. A wil to commit aduoutrie. Aegra mens. Tibul. Altæ mentis capax animal. Ouid. A man that in minde can conceiue great and diuine matters. Antiqua mens Ouid. Such affection and good minde, as men in olde time were wont to haue. Arida mens est, Valer. Flac. Augusta. Ouid. Armata mens dolis. Sil. A minde furnished with. Auida mens belli. Luca. Arrectæ mentes. Virg. Bona mens. Pers. Auersa mens. Virg. A minde bearing no fauour to. Bonæ mentis iuuenes. Quint. Cæca futuri mens hominum. Stat. Mans minde ignoraunt of things to come. Captiua mens. Ouid. Circunflua mens luxu. Claud. A minde swimming in ryote and sensualitie. Commota. Hor. Conscelerata. Cic. A very wicked minde. Confusa. Virg. Conscia. Senec. Conscia sibi mens recti. Virg. Crudelior ipso mens pelago. Ouid. Cupida mens. Ouid. Dira. Virg. Diuinæ mentis pars. Virg. A portion of a diuine soule. Erecta mens circa studia. Quint. A minde attent to studie and learning. Facilis mens ad peiora. Quint. Firmata mens. Ouid. Fortis mens. Ouid. Fluxa senio mens. Tacit. Fragilis. Stat. Ventosa ceruorum frigida mens est. Lucr. Furiata mente iuuenis. Virg. Furtiua mens. Ouid. A secreate minde or purpose. Generosa. Ouid. A noble courage or heart. Humanæ mentes. Ouid. Honesta. Senec. Ignara mens culpæ. Stat. Ignea mens. Sil. An excellent minde? burning in the desire of verrue. Illiberalis mens. Quint. Impenerrabilis iræ mens. Sil. Impia mens. Senec. Impigræ experientia mentis. Lucr. Imposta mens cunctis. Stat. Incertæ discordia mentis. Ouid. The distraction of the minde in sundrie affections at once. Infirma mens. Ouid. Infixa in imagines mens. Cic. A minde fastened vpon. Insana mens. Tibul. Intenta malis mens. Ouid. Integra. Horar. Interrita mens lethi. Ouid. A courage that fearesh not death. Inuicta mens. Sil. Læua. Virg. A foolish and ouerthwart minde. Lapsæ spes & mentes. Silius. Hope and courage decayed. Maculatæ crimine mentes. Sil. Liberæ mentes. Quin. Magna mens. Virg. Lymphata mens. Hor. Melior. Terent. O miseras hominum mentes. Lucr. Nutrita mens & indoles sub faustis penetralibus. Hor. Perniciosissima mens, multísque malo futura. Quint. Perturbata animi mens in mœrore. Lucret. The constancse of minde greatly troubled in sorrow. Pia mens. Ouid. Sagax. Lucr. Placida & alta. Quint. Sanæ mentis compos. Ouid. Præmollitæ mentes. Quint. Segnis ad artem mens. Claud. Præsaga mali mens. Virgilius. A minde haning sence of euill to come. Præscia mens. Sil. Seuera. Claud. Pristina. Ouid. Sobria. Claud. Profunda. Claud. Profusa. Stat. Solida mens. Horat. A stedfast and sure minde. Prona mens in ferrum. Lucan. A courage or heart readie to murder. Stolidæ præcordia mentis. Ouid. Prouida mens. Ouid. Syncera mens. Claud. Releuata mens ab hac cura. Ouid. Temperata. Hor. Teneræ mentes. Quint. Rudis mens. Quint. A minde vnfashioned or vnframed. Tristis mens. Ouid. Turbata. Virg. Sacra. Ouid. Vacuæ mentes. Virg. Accendere mentes in prælia. Sil. To stirre vp mens courages to battaile. Benignam mentem accipere in aliquem. Virgil. To conceiue a fauourable minde toward. Addere mentibus, Vide ADDO. Addere ardorem mentibus. Virg. To giue courage to. Surdæ menti adhibent solatia. Ouid. Adijcere mentem dictis. Ouid. They comforted a minde that woulde heare no consolation. Deorum mente ac ratione mundum administrari. Cice. By the indgement and reason of. Faciles aduertite mentes. Ouid. Aduerte huc mentem. Virg. Attend to this: harken.

Mintes. Alij scribunt Mentha. Olentes mentæ. Ouid.

To lie: to faine: to counterfaite. Mentiebatur ad milites. Gell. lib. 15. cap. 22. Palm mentiri, vide PALAM præpositionem. Nisi mentior, vide NISI. Aduersus aliquem mentiri. Plau. To make a lie to one. In aliquem mentiti. Cic. To make a lie of one. Alicui mentiri. Plaut. De mea autem causa nulla est cur mentiar. Cice. There is no cause why I shoulde lie of my selfe. Mentiri se esse aliquem. Plin. iunior. To faine or counterfaite himselfe to be one. Amorem mentiri. Ouid. To counterfaire. Causam fugæ mentitur. Ouid. He fained. Colorem fuco mentiri. Quint. To counterfaite a faire calor, with painting: to paint the face. Laoa mentitur varios colores. Virg. Color ille chrysocollam mentitur. Plin. The colour resembleth Boras, or to see to is much like Boras. Dolorem capitis mentita puella. Ouid. Fidem mentiri. Claud. Verum robur inani sagina mentiri. Quintil. To counterfait a sounde strength by a vaine pampering or feeding vppe of the bodie. Sexum muliebri motu mentiri. Col. With gesture and mooning tofaine and counterfaite themselues to be women. Vitam vanitas mentitur sibi. Plin. Vanitie imagineth to it selfe a life. Mentiri. Plin. To write falsely.

A chinne. Canities inculta mento iacet. Virg. Incana menta. Virg. Intorquere mentum, Vide INTORQVEO. A mento palearia pendent. Virg. Nutanti mento percutere pectus. Ouid.

I. In gen.: fusi sine mente ac sine sensu ullo jaceant, Enn. ap. Non. 312, 26 (Ann. v. 134 Vahl.): nubilam mentem Animi habeo, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 6: mens animi, Cat. 65, 4: mens animi vigilat, Lucr. 4, 758: mala mens, malus animus, bad disposition, bad heart, Ter. And. 1, 1, 137: hominum erga se mentes, feelings, sentiments, Suet. Calig. 60: mens mollis ad calamitates perferendas, Caes. B. G. 3, 19: humanae mentis vitium ... saeva cupido, Juv. 14, 175.—

II. In partic.

A. The conscience: cum vero jurato sententia dicenda est, meminerit, deum se adhibere testem, id est ut ego arbitror, mentem suam, Cic. Off. 3, 10, 44: auditor, cui frigida mens est crimi nibus, Juv. 1, 166: quos diri conscia fact, Mens habet attonitos et surdo verbere caedit, id. 13, 194.—

B. The intellectual faculties, the mind, understanding, intellect, reason, judgment, discernment, consideration, reflection, etc.: mens, cui regnum totius animi (soul) a naturā tributum est, Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 11: animus ita est constitutus, ut habeat praestantiam mentis, id. Fin. 5, 12, 34: deorum mente atque ratione omnem mundum administrari et regi, id. N. D. 1, 2, 4: mente complecti aliquid, to comprehend, understand, id. Tusc. 1, 16, 37: sanum mentis esse, to be of sound mind, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 53: mens sana in corpore sano, Juv 10, 356: mentis suae esse, to be in one's right mind, in one's senses, Cic. Pis. 21, 50; so, mentis compotem esse, id. ib. 20, 48: captus mente, out of his senses, beside himself, mad (cf. menceps), id. Ac. 2, 17, 53; Paul. Sent. 3, 4, a, 11: mentem amittere, to lose one's mind, Cic. Har. Resp. 15. 31: mentis inops, Ov. H. 15, 139: huic ex tempore dicenti effluit mens, his recollection vanished, Cic. Brut. 61, 218: quis est tam vecors, qui ea, quae tanta mente fiunt, casu putet posse fieri? id. Har. Resp. 9, 19: vobis dent mentem oportet (di), ut prohibeatis, sicut mihi dederunt, ut, etc., Liv. 6, 18: quid tibi istuc in mentem venit? what comes into your mind? what are you thinking of? Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 34: modo hercle in mentem venit, id. As. 3, 2, 42: venit hoc mihi in mentem, te, etc., id. Aul. 2, 2, 49: venit in mentem, ut, etc., id. Curc. 4, 4, 2.—With inf., Plaut. Bacch. 4, 7, 31.—With nom.: miserae ubi venit in mentem mortis metus, Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 23: servi venere in mentem calliditates, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 13: quotiescumque patria in mentem veniret, Liv. 5, 54, 3; 8, 5, 10; Quint. 12, 9, 13; cf.: numquam ea res tibi tam belle in mentem venire potuisset, Cic. Att. 12, 37, 2; id. Har. Resp. 26, 55.—With gen. (so mostly in Cic.): non minus saepe ei venit in mentem potestatis, quam aequitatis tuae, he bethought himself of, Cic. Quint. 2, 6: tibi tuarum virtutum veniat in mentem, id. de Or 2, 61, 249: venit mihi Platonis in mentem, id. Fin. 5, 1, 2: solet mihi in mentem venire illius temporis, id. Fam. 7, 3, 1.—

C. Mind, thought, plan, purpose, intention, design. quā facere id possis, nostram nunc accipe mentem, Verg. A. 1, 676: ut nemini dubium esse debeat, quin reliquo tempore eādem mente sim futurus, Nep. Hann. 2, 5: Dolabella classem eā mente comparavit, ut, Cic. Fam. 12, 14, 1: mentes deorum scrutari in fibris, Ov. M. 15, 136: ferro percussit, sed non occidendi mente, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 1, 6, 3: poenae modus ex mente facientis statui potest, ib. 13, 3, 2: in mente est mihi dormire, I have a mind to, Petr. 21.—

D. Spirit, boldness, courage: addere mentem, to give courage to, Hor Ep. 2, 2, 36: demittunt mentes, lose courage, Verg. A. 12, 609 (cf. animus).—

E. Personified: Mens, the goddess of thought, whose festival was held on the eighth of June, Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 19: Menti aedem T. Octacilius praetor vovit, Liv. 22, 10; cf. Ov. F. 6, 241.

I. Neutr., to lie, cheat, deceive, etc.: mentiri palam, Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 89: mentire, id. Poen. 3, 5, 18: adversus aliquem, id. Aul. 4, 7, 9: apud aliquem, id. Poen. 1, 1, 24: sibi, id. Am. 1, 2, 6: mihi, id. Capt. 3, 5, 46; Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 35: aperte, Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 18: in re aliquā, id. Att. 12, 21, 4: de re aliquā, id. N. D. 3, 6, 14: adeo veritatis diligens, ut ne joco quidem mentiretur, Nep. Epam. 3, 1.—With acc. and inf., to pretend, to declare falsely: certam me sum mentitus habere Horam, quae, etc., Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 53; Plin. 12, 15, 34, 67: mentior nisi or si mentior, a form of asseveration, I am a liar, if, etc.: mentior, nisi et quae alunt illud, corpora sunt, Sen. Ep. 106, 5: si mentiar, inquit, Ultima, quā fallam, sit Venus illa mihi, Ov. F. 4, 227.—Of things, to deceive, impose upon: frons, oculi, vultus persaepe mentiuntur, oratio vero saepissime, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 6: in quibus nihil umquam ... vetustas mentita sit, id. N. D. 2, 5, 15.—

B. To deceive one's self, mistake: mentire, gnate, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 83 Brix ad loc.—

II. Act., to lie or speak falsely about, to assert falsely, make a false promise about; to feign, counterfeit, imitate a shape, nature, etc.: cujus consilio tantam rem mentitus esset, had devised such a falsehood, Sall. C. 48: originem alicujus, Just. 35, 2, 4: auspicium, Liv. 10, 40: titulum Lyciscae, to assume falsely, Juv. 6, 123: noctem, to promise falsely, Prop. 3, 9, 1: cur sese daemonia mentiuntur, Tert. Apol. 23; also, to invent, feign, of a poetical fiction: ita mentitur (sc. Homerus), Hor. A. P. 151; cf.: poëtae Orionem mentiuntur in pelago incidentem, Lact. 4, 15, 21.—Pass.: si a debitore, praelato die, pignoris obligatio mentiatur, Dig. 48, 10, 28.—

B. Trop., of inanim. subjects: semel fac illud, Mentitur tua quod subinde tussis, do what your cough keeps falsely promising, i. e. die, Mart. 5, 39, 6: mentiris juvenem tinctis capillis, id. 3, 43, 1: color, qui chrysocollam mentitur, Plin. 35, 6, 29, 48: nec varios discet mentiri lana colores, Verg. E. 4, 42: sexum viris denegatum muliebri motu, Col. praef. 1.—Hence,

1. mentĭens, entis, m. subst., a fallacy, sophism: quomodo mentientem, quem yeudo/menon vocant, dissolvas, Cic. Div. 2, 4, 11. —

2. mentītus, a, um, Part., in pass. signif., imitated, counterfeit, feigned (poet.): mentita tela, Verg. A. 2, 422: figurae, Ov. M. 5, 326: fama, id. ib. 10, 28: nomen, id. ib. 10, 439; id. H. 11, 73; Sen. Contr. 5, 5, 3; Luc. 2, 512; Val. Fl. 6, 698; 7, 155; Sil. 15, 796; Stat. S. 4, 6, 21; id. Th. 1, 256; 7, 303; 10, 875; Poët. ap. Suet. Oth. 3; Prop. 4 (5), 7, 58: mentiti fictique terrores, Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 15; id. Pan. 81, 3: divinitas, Lact. 2, 16, 2; Quint. 12, 10, 76.