The corpus record

φάντᾰσ-μα

phantasma · τό

apparition, phantom

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Where it lives

De Insomniis 13 · 54.48/10k
De Memoria et Reminiscentia 12 · 49.94/10k
De Divinatione per Somnum 4 · 33.36/10k
De Somno et Vigilia 2 · 6.73/10k
Sophist 10 · 6.24/10k
Hecuba 3 · 4.19/10k
De Mundo 2 · 3.15/10k
Timaeus 5 · 2.12/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Parmenides 3 · 1.98/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10 · 0.93/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

apparition, phantom, vision, dream

= φάσμα, apparition, phantom, ἐνύπνια φαντάσματα A. Th. 710; νυκτέρων φ. ἔχουσι μορφάς Id. Fr. 312; φ. δαίμονος Plu. Dio 2, cf. E. Hec. 54, 94 (anap.), 390, Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.22, Ev.Matt. 14.26; περὶ τὰ μνήματα . . ὤφθη ἄττα ψυχῶν σκιοειδῆ φ. Pl. Phd. 81d; vision, dream, Arist. EN 1102b10 (pl.), Theoc. 21.30.

b phenomena, portents

pl., phenomena, τὰ ἐν ἀέρι φ. Arist. Mu. 395a29: pl., portents, D.H. 4.62.

= φαντασία I, Pl. Prt. 356e, Tht. 167b, Prm. 166a, R. 598b, Arist. de An. 428a1, Epicur. Ep. 2pp. 37,51 U.; distd. from εἰκών, Pl. Sph. 236c.

In the wild

φαντασμάτων · phantasmatōn Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 710–711
φαντάσμασι · phantasmasi Aristotle, De Divinatione per Somnum (DIORISIS sentence 11)
φαντασμάτων · phantasmatōn Aristotle, De Divinatione per Somnum (DIORISIS sentence 11)
φαντάσματα · phantasmata Aristotle, De Divinatione per Somnum (DIORISIS sentence 21)
φαντάσματα · phantasmata Aristotle, De Divinatione per Somnum (DIORISIS sentence 28)
φαντάσματι · phantasmati Aristotle, De Insomniis (DIORISIS sentence 12)

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Where it came from

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