reminisco

rĕ-mĭniscor, sci, v. dep. n. and a. [root men; whence mens, memini; v. comminiscor].

I.

To recall to mind, recollect, remember (syn. recordor):

reminisci, quom ea quae tenuit mens ac memoria, cogitando repetuntur,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 44 Müll.:

se non tum illa discere, sed reminiscendo recognoscere,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 57; cf. id. Sen. 21, 78:

te de aliis quibusdam quaestoribus reminiscentem recordari,

id. Lig. 12, 35.— With gen.: reminisceretur veteris incommodi populi Romani, * Caes. B. G. 1, 13:

veteris famae,

Nep. Phoc. 4, 1:

Satyri,

Ov. M. 6, 383:

facti,

Suet. Claud. 41:

reminiscere quae traduntur mysteriis,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 13, 29. — With acc.: ea potius reminiscere, quae, etc., Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 5:

acerbitatem pristini temporis,

Nep. Alcib. 6, 3:

dulces Argos,

Verg. A. 10, 782:

animo dulces amicos,

Ov. P. 1, 8, 31:

tempus illud,

id. Tr. 5, 4, 31:

acta,

id. M. 11, 714; Vulg. 2 Cor. 7, 15.—With obj.-clause:

reminiscere, totius imum Nil esse in summā,

Lucr. 2, 90; 6, 649; Ov. M. 1, 256; cf. id. ib. 7, 293. —With rel.-clause:

reminiscerentur quam majestatem accepissent,

Liv. 4, 2, 4; Nep. Dat. 5, 1.—

II.

To call to mind, imagine, conceive:

ut, si ipse fingere vellet, neque plura bona reminisci, neque majora posset consequi, quam vel fortuna vel natura tribuerat,

Nep. Alcib. 2, 1 dub. (al. comminisci):

reminiscimini quod respondeatis,

App. Mag. p. 338, 38:

finge quidvis, reminiscere, excogita, quid possit magicum videri,

id. ib. p. 308, 33.

► Act. collat. form rĕmĭnisco, ĕre, acc. to Prisc. p. 799 P.; censured by Aus. Epigr. 48 and 49.