The corpus record

φαντᾰσ-τικός

phantastikos

able to produce the appearance

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Where it lives

De Insomniis 5 · 20.96/10k
Sophist 9 · 5.62/10k
Enneads 10 · 0.47/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4 · 0.37/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k

What it meant — LSJ

able to produce the appearance, the art of producing appearances, imaginative faculty, faculty of being deluded by images, by means of mental images

able to produce the appearance of something, Pl. Sph. 266d, 268c: ἡ -κή (sc. τέχνη), the art of producing appearances, opp. εἰκαστική, ib. 236c; φ. ἐπιβολὴ τῆς διανοίας Epicur. Sent. 24, cf. Ep. 1p.13U., Phld. Sign.Fr. 1 (pl.): τὸ φ. Arist. de An. 432a31, Plot. 4.3.29: the imaginative faculty, faculty of being deluded by images, Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.22. Adv. -κῶς, by means of mental images, Epicur. Nat. 28.7; τυποῦσθαι M.Ant. 3.16, S.E. M. 7.373, cf. Jul. Or. 5.164c, Syrian. in Metaph. 115.37, etc.

In the wild

φανταστικὸν · phantastikon Aristotle, De Insomniis (DIORISIS sentence 11)
φανταστικόν · phantastikon Aristotle, De Insomniis (DIORISIS sentence 16)
φανταστικῷ · phantastikōi Aristotle, De Insomniis (DIORISIS sentence 16)
φανταστικόν · phantastikon Aristotle, De Insomniis (DIORISIS sentence 16)
φανταστικαὶ · phantastikai Aristotle, De Insomniis (DIORISIS sentence 68)
φανταστικῇ · phantastikēi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8901)

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