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mendacium
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Lewis Short
mendācĭum (noun N) : mendax
* A lie, untruth, falsehood.
* Lit. (class.): dicere alicui mendacium de re aliquā,Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 33: mendacio fallere,Cic. Mur. 30, 62: vatum,Ov. F. 6, 253: famae,id. ib. 4, 311: immensa spirant mendacia,Juv. 7, 111: Titiae meae, cum quā sine mendacio vixi,i. e. honestly, without hypocrisy,Dig. 34, 2, 36: prophetāsti mendacium,Vulg. Jer. 20, 6; cf. id. ib. 27, 10: credere mendacio,to believe a lie,id. 2 Thess. 2, 11.
* Esp., a fable, fiction (opp. historic truth): poëtarum,Curt. 3, 1, 4.
* Transf., of things, a counterfeit (post-Aug.): neque est imitabilior alia mendacio vitri,Plin. 37, 8, 33, § 112; 35, 6, 29, § 48.
* A lie, untruth, falsehood.
* Lit. (class.): dicere alicui mendacium de re aliquā,Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 33: mendacio fallere,Cic. Mur. 30, 62: vatum,Ov. F. 6, 253: famae,id. ib. 4, 311: immensa spirant mendacia,Juv. 7, 111: Titiae meae, cum quā sine mendacio vixi,i. e. honestly, without hypocrisy,Dig. 34, 2, 36: prophetāsti mendacium,Vulg. Jer. 20, 6; cf. id. ib. 27, 10: credere mendacio,to believe a lie,id. 2 Thess. 2, 11.
* Esp., a fable, fiction (opp. historic truth): poëtarum,Curt. 3, 1, 4.
* Transf., of things, a counterfeit (post-Aug.): neque est imitabilior alia mendacio vitri,Plin. 37, 8, 33, § 112; 35, 6, 29, § 48.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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