A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory Of calling shapes, and beckning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllablemens names On Sands, and Shoars, and desert Wildernesses.
“Does it not come into [your]mind [the sort of people] whose lands you have settled?” (Idiomatic translations vary – Mackail, 1885: “nor does it cross thy mind”; Knight, 1956: “you should remember”; Mandelbaum, 1971: “have you forgotten”; Fitzgerald, 1981: “have you considered”; Fagles, 2006: “don’t you recall”; Ahl, 2007: “aren’t you concerned about”; Bartsch, 2020: “do you forget”.)
Could be combined with an adjective in anablative absolute expressing one's state of mind or intention, as in Catullus'obstinata mente perfer "endure it with a resolute mind" or Virgil'ssimulata 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'smale 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.
^De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mēns, mentis”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,pages372-3
“mens”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“mens”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
mens inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
to attract universal attention:omnium animos ormentes 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 ormente 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) oranimo caliginem offundere
(ambiguous) innate ideas:notiones animo (menti) insitae, innatae
(ambiguous) to lose one's composure; to be disconcerted:de statu suo ormentis 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”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
mens inRamminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed))Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
“mens”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1848),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
