mazes

error, ōris, m. [id.], a wandering.

In gen., a wandering, straying or strolling about (rare and mostly poet.).

Lit.:

ad quos Ceres m illo errore venisse dicitur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, § 108:

error ac dissipatio civium (sc. mercatorum),

id. Rep. 2, 4, 7 Mos. (cf. erratio, I.): navium pars ex errore eodem conferebatur, Auct. B. Afr. 11; cf. Ov. H. 16, 29; id. M. 14, 484; id. Tr. 4, 10, 100; Verg. A. 1, 755; 6, 532 et saep.— Transf., of the motion of atoms, Lucr. 2, 132; of the meanderings of rivers, Ov. M. 1, 582; of the mazes of the labyrinth, id. ib. 8, 161; 167.—

Trop., a wavering, uncertainty:

fluctuat incertis erroribus ardor amantum,

Lucr. 4, 1077: [p. 658] nec, quid corde nunc consili capere possim, Scio, tantus cum cura meo est error animo, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 13; cf. Liv. 9, 15; 45; 27, 47; Ov. F. 5, 362 al.; so, too, with obj. gen.:

viarum,

uncertainty, ignorance, Liv. 24, 17; cf.

veri,

Tac. H. 2, 72.—

In partic., a wandering from the right way, a going astray.

Lit. (very seldom):

reduxit me usque ex errore in viam,

Plaut. Ps. 2, 3, 2; Curt. 5, 13 fin. —

Trop., a departing from the truth, an error, mistake, delusion (class.; cf.:

erratum, vitium, peccatum): erroris ego illos et. dementiae complebo,

Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 8:

opinionibus vulgi rapimur in errorem nec vera cernimus,

Cic. Leg. 2, 17, 43; cf.:

inducere imperitos in errorem,

id. Brut. 85, 293; Nep. Hann. 9, 3:

errore quodam fallimur in disputando,

Cic. Rep. 3, 35:

si errorem velis tollere,

id. ib. 1, 24:

errorem tollere,

id. ib. 2, 10; id. Fin. 1, 11, 37:

deponere,

id. Phil. 8, 11, 32:

eripere alicui,

id. Att. 10, 4, 6:

demere,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 140 et saep.:

mentis,

i. e. distraction, insanity, Cic. Att. 3, 13, 2; cf. Hor. A. P. 454; Verg. G. 3, 513; so poet. of other kinds of mental perturbation, as fear, Ov. F. 3, 555;

love,

Verg. E. 8, 41; Ov. Am. 1, 10, 9; cf. ib. 1, 2, 35; id. M. 10, 342: aut aliquis latet error;

equo ne credite, Teucri,

some deception, Verg. A. 2, 48; cf. Liv. 22, 1:

par forma aut aetas errorem agnoscentibus fecerat,

Tac. A. 4, 63:

jaculum detulit error in Idam,

Ov. M. 5, 90.—

Esp., an error in language, a solecism, Quint. 1, 5, 47.—

Rarely a moral error, fault (cf. erro, I. B. 2.), Ov. Pont. 4, 8, 20; cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 57; 2, 3, 92.—

Error, personif., = Atê, the inspirer of folly or judicial blindness, Ov. M. 12, 59.

flexus, a, um, Part. and P. a., from flecto.

flexus, ūs, m. [flecto], a bending, turning, winding (class.; in sing. and plur.).

Lit.:

aures duros et quasi corneolos habent introitus, multisque cum flexibus,

Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144; cf. Quint. 6, 13, 9:

ut qui cursu parum valent, flexu eludunt,

id. 9, 2, 78:

cum venissem ad pontem, in quo flexus est ad iter Arpinas,

Cic. Att. 16, 13, a, 1; cf.:

in aliquo flexu viae,

Liv. 22, 12, 7:

implicatae flexibus vallium viae,

id. 32, 4, 4:

Rhenus modico flexu in occidentem versus,

Tac. G. 1:

flexu Armeniam petivit,

id. A. 12, 12:

alio flexu reduci ad viam,

Quint. 2, 17, 29:

(quo pacto sol) Brumales adeat flexus,

Lucr. 5, 616:

brumales,

id. 5, 640:

metae,

the turn round the goal, Pers. 3, 63:

labyrinthei,

the mazes, Cat. 64, 114:

capilli dociles et centum flexibus apti,

Ov. Am. 1, 14, 13: in litore flexus Mecybernaeus, the bay or gulf, Mela, 2, 3 init.; cf. id. 3, 1.—

Trop.

In gen., a turning, transition into another state, political change:

id enim est caput civilis prudentiae, videre itinera flexusque rerum publicarum,

Cic. Rep. 2, 25, 46:

in hoc flexu quasi aetatis fama adolescentis paululum haesit ad metas (the figure taken from the turning of the racers on reaching the goal),

id. Cael. 31, 75; cf.:

si infinitus forensium rerum labor decursu honorum et jam aetatis flexu constitisset, i. e. senectus,

id. de Or. 1, 1, 1:

flexu auctumni (= post medium tempus auctumni, trop. from turning the meta in the Circus),

Tac. H. 5, 23; v. Orell. ad h. 1.—

In partic. (post-Aug.).

An artful turning, winding, shifting:

inde recta fere est actio, hinc mille flexus et artes desiderantur,

Quint. 5, 13, 2:

qui haec recta tantum, et in nullos flexus recedentia tractaverit,

id. 10, 5, 12. —

Of the voice, inflection, modulation, variation:

citharoedi simul et sono vocis et plurimis flexibus serviunt,

Quint. 1, 12, 3:

quid quoque flexu dicendum,

id. 1, 8, 1:

qui flexus deceat miserationem,

id. 1, 11, 12; 1, 8, 3.—

In gram., inflection, variation, derivation (in Varro flexura, v. h. v.): quid vero? quae tota positionis ejusdem in diversos flexus eunt? cum Alba faciat Albanos et Albenses;

volo, volui et volavi,

Quint. 1, 6, 15.

ĭn-extrīcābĭlis, e, adj. [2. in-extrico], that cannot be disengaged or disentangled, inextricable ( poet. and post-Aug.).

Lit.:

error (of the mazes of the labyrinth, from which one could not find his way out),

Verg. A. 6, 27: cortex, that cannot be disengaged or separated. Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 188:

litus,

where one cannot disembark, Sil. 4, 584.—

Trop.:

errores,

Lact. 3, 17, 17:

Stomachi inextricabilia vitia,

incurable, Plin. 20, 21, 86, § 232:

perfectio,

inexplicable, indescribable, id. 11, 2, 1, § 2.—

* Adv.: ĭnextrīcābĭlĭter, inextricably:

contorta fatorum licia,

App. M. 11, p. 269, 37.

ĭn-extrīcābĭlis, e, adj. [2. in-extrico], that cannot be disengaged or disentangled, inextricable ( poet. and post-Aug.).

Lit.:

error (of the mazes of the labyrinth, from which one could not find his way out),

Verg. A. 6, 27: cortex, that cannot be disengaged or separated. Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 188:

litus,

where one cannot disembark, Sil. 4, 584.—

Trop.:

errores,

Lact. 3, 17, 17:

Stomachi inextricabilia vitia,

incurable, Plin. 20, 21, 86, § 232:

perfectio,

inexplicable, indescribable, id. 11, 2, 1, § 2.—

* Adv.: ĭnextrīcābĭlĭter, inextricably:

contorta fatorum licia,

App. M. 11, p. 269, 37.