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φαντάζω , (φαίνω)
A.make visible, present to the eye or mind, τι Alex.Aphr.Pr.2.18, Hsch.: but, φ. τὴν αἴσθησιν, deceive, Callistr. Stat.14:—Med., with aor. Pass., place before one's mind, picture an object to oneself, imagine, τι Longin.15.2, 8, M.Ant.10.28, Porph. Sent.33, Iamb.Myst.3.20, Chor.p.16 B.; “χωρίον” Id.Milt.29 F.-R.; “κύνα ἐν ὕδατι” Hp.Ep. 19 (Hermes 43.68); “περί τῆς φύσεως” Him.Or.14.24; fancy, imagine, ὅτι . . Arr.Epict.1.5.6; “ὄναρ ἐφαντάσθην” Hp.Ep.15; τοῖς μηδὲ φαντασθεῖσιν ὡς καλόν . . Plot.1.6.4; c. acc. et. inf., Polem. Phgn.36, Iamb.Myst.2.10.
II. in early writers only in Pass., fut. “φαντασθήσομαι” Pl.Smp.211a: aor. “ἐφαντάσθην” Id.Phlb.51a:— become visible, appear, σφι Hdt.4.124; “ὄνειρον φαντάζεταί μοι” Id.7.15; “μηδὲ φαντάζου δόμων πάροιθε” E.Andr.876, cf. Ph.93; “φ. ἄλλοτε ἐν ἄλλαις ἰδέαις” Pl.R.380d; also, to be heard, “μυκαὶ σηκοῖς ἔνι φ.” A.R. 4.1285; “φοβερὸν ἦν τὸ -όμενον” Ep.Hebr.12.21.
b. to be terrified by visions or phantasms, PMag.Lond.121.888.
2. make a show, Hdt.7.10. ε᾽.
3. φαντάζεσθαί τινι make oneself like someone, take his form, “φανταζόμενος . . γυναικί” A.Ag.1500 (anap.).
4. appear so and so, to be imagined, Pl.Hp.Ma.300c; “ἡδοναὶ φαντασθεῖσαι” Id.Phlb.51a; “τῷ νοηθῆναι ἢ φαντασθῆναι” Arist.de An.433b12.
5. com. for συκοφαντεῖσθαι, to be informed against, Ar.Ach.823 (Megar. φαντάδδομαι).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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