I. Full of faults, fauity.
A. Physically, full of faults or blemishes: “equi facies,” Ov. M. 12, 399.—
B. In gen., erroneous, incorrect (class.): “mendosum exemplar testamenti,” Plin. Ep. 10, 75: “mendosum est, etc.,” Cic. de Or. 2, 19, 83: “mores,” Ov. Am. 2, 4, 1.—Comp.: “historia mendosior,” Cic. Brut. 16, 62.—
II. Transf.
A. That commits faults, makes mistakes: “cur servus societatis, qui tabulas conficeret, semper in Verrucii nomine certo ex loco mendosus esset,” Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 77, § 188.—
B. False, deceptive: mendosum for mendose, adverbially, falsely: “mendosum tinnire,” Pers. 5, 106.—Hence, adv.: mendōsē , full of faults, faultily, falsely (class.): “libri mendose scribuntur,” Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 5, 6: “mendose colligis,” Pers. 5, 85.— Sup.: “ars mendosissime scripta,” Cic. Inv. 1, 6, 8.
