'''Vis''' ([[wikt:vis|–-is ''f.'']]) sensu latissimo res efficiendas potestatem vel inclinationem vel virtutem vel coercitionem significat. Sensu latissimo igitur{{dubsig}} ecce{{dubsig}} ''vis comica,'' quae ''genius comicus'' et ''vis poetica'' dicitur, quae ''genius poeticus'' dicitur.<!--???--><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=KoMVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA125&lpg=PA125&dq=cicero+vis+poetica&source=web&ots=w2P2KZztcV&sig=pNO8UHMTwxxOfcBklAI7rRz1Vxs#PPA125,M1 ''A Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Classical Quotations, Comprising Idioms,'' editus ab Hugh Percy Jones].</ref> In [[physica]] autem [[Leges motus Newtoni|Newtoniana]], vis est [[axioma]]tica magni momenti notio.
