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mendācĭum , ii, n. mendax,
I.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.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Cicero, For Lucius Murena, 30.62
    • New Testament, 2 Thessalonians, 2.11
    • Old Testament, Jeremiah, 20.6
    • Plautus, Bacchides, 4.9
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 35.48
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 3.1.4
    • Ovid, Fasti, 4
    • Ovid, Fasti, 6
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