A.mistake in music, false note, but in usage, metaph., fault, error, esp. in taste or judgement, Pl.Ap.22d; “διὰ π. καὶ ἀμουσίαν” Id.Lg.691a; faultiness in metre, etc., Plu.2.396d; “ἀσέβεια ἡ περὶ θεοὺς π.” Arist.VV1251a31 (hence in LXX, trespass, sin, Le.6.5, al.; εἰς πλημμέλειαν for a sin-offering, ib.5.18): freq. in pl., “αἱ π. αἱ ἐν τοῖς πράγμασιν” Isoc.8.56, etc.
πλημμέλ-εια , ἡ, prop.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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