CENSERE; JUDICARE; ARBITRARI; ÆSTIMARE; OPINARI; PUTARE; RERI; AUTUMARE; EXISTIMARE; CREDERE. 1. +Censere+, +judicare+, +arbitrari+, +æstimare+, denote passing judgment with competent authority, derived from a call to the office of judge; +censere+, as possessing the authority of a censor, or of a senator giving his vote; +judicare+, as possessing that of a judge passing sentence; +arbitrari+, as possessing that of an arbitrator; +æstimare+ (#aisthesthai#), as that of a taxer, making a valuation; whereas, +opinari+, +putare+, +reri+, and +autumare+, denote passing judgment under the form of a private opinion, with a purely subjective signification; +opinari+ (#opis#) as a mere sentiment and conjecture, in opp. to a clear conviction and knowledge. Cic. Orat. i. 23. Mur. 30. Tusc. iv. 7. Rosc. Am. 10; +putare+, as one who casts up an account; +reri+ as a poetical, and +autumare+ as an antiquated term. 2. +Æstimare+ denotes passing judgment under the form of the political function of an actual taxer, to estimate anything exactly, or according to its real value, or price in money; but +existimare+, as a moral function, to estimate anything according to its worth or truth; hence Cicero contrasts _existimatio_, not _æstimatio_, as a private opinion, with competent judgment, _judicio_; Cluent. 29. Verr. v. 68. 3. +Censere+ denotes judgment and belief, as grounded upon one's own reflection and conviction; +credere+, as grounded on the credit which is given to the testimony of others. 4. +Opinor+, parenthetically, implies modesty, like #oimai#; whereas +credo+ implies irony, like #hôs eoiken#, sometimes in propositions that are self-evident, whereby the irony reaches the ears of those to whom the truth could not be plainly spoken or repeated, or who might be inclined to doubt it; sometimes, in absurd propositions which a man thinks fit to put in the mouth of another; sometimes, in propositions so evident as scarcely to admit of controversy. (v. 300.)
CHORDA; FIDES. +Chorda+ (#chordê# is a single string; +fides+ (#sphidê#) in the sing. and plur. means a complete collection of strings, or a string-instrument.
CICUR; MANSUETUS. +Cicur+ (redupl. of #korizomai#) denotes tameness, merely in a physical sense, and as a term in natural history, in opp. to _ferus_; whereas +mansuetus+, in a moral sense also, as implying a mild disposition, in opp. to _sævus_. (iv. 257.)