_animo, cogitatione aliquid fingere_ (or simply _fingere_, but without
_sibi_), _informare_—to form an idea of a thing, imagine, conceive.
_animo concipere aliquid_—to form an idea of a thing, imagine, conceive.
_animo, cogitatione aliquid praecipere_ (Off 1. 23. 81)—to form a
conception of a thing beforehand.
_cogitatione sibi aliquid depingere_—to picture to oneself.
_ingenium, cogitatio_—imagination.
_ingenii vis_ or _celeritas_—vivid, lively imagination.
_rerum imagines_—creatures of the imagination.
_res cogitatione fictae_ or _depictae_—creatures of the imagination.
_opinionum commenta, ineptiae, monstra, portenta_—extravagant fictions
of fancy.
_animo, mente, cogitatione aliquid comprehendere, complecti_—to grasp
a thing mentally.
_in eam cogitationem incidere_—to happen to think of...
_haec cogitatio subit animum_—an idea strikes me.
_illud succurrit mihi_—an idea strikes me.
_mihi in mentem venit alicuius rei_—something comes into my mind.
_aliquid animo meo obversatur_ (cf. sect. III, s. v. _oculi_)—a vague
notion presents itself to my mind.
_aliquem ad eam cogitationem adducere ut_—to induce a person to think
that...
_alicuius animum ab aliqua re abducere_—to draw away some one's
attention from a thing.
_cogitationem, animum in aliquid intendere_ (Acad. 4. 46)—to direct
one's attention...
_omnes cogitationes ad aliquid conferre_—to give all one's attention
to a thing.
_mentem in aliqua re defigere_—to fix all one's thoughts on an object.
_in cogitatione defixum esse_—to be deep in thought.
_cogitationes in res humiles abicere_ (De Amic. 9. 32) (Opp. _alte
spectare, ad altiora tendere, altum, magnificum, divinum
suspicere_)—to study the commonplace.