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  • 1 mendacium

    mendācĭum, ii, n. [mendax], a lie, untruth, falsehood.
    I.
    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.—
    B.
    Esp., a fable, fiction (opp. historic truth):

    poëtarum,

    Curt. 3, 1, 4.—
    II.
    Transf., of things, a counterfeit (post-Aug.):

    neque est imitabilior alia mendacio vitri,

    Plin. 37, 8, 33, § 112; 35, 6, 29, § 48.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > mendacium

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