φανταςτής

A. one who makes a parade, boaster, Polem.Phgn. 27 codd. φαντας‐τικός, ή, όν, 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.