I.a fault, defect, blemish of the body (poet. and postAug.).
I. Lit.: “in toto nusquam corpore menda fuit,” Ov. Am. 1, 5, 18: “nocte latent mendae,” id. A. A. 1, 249.—
II. Transf., a mistake, error, blunder, in writing, in books, a slip of the pen, Suet. Aug. 87: “mendae istins indoles,” Gell. 20, 6, 14; 1, 7, 3.