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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license by the Perseus Digital Library, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Digitized from Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary (1879). Data originally from PerseusDL/lexica and accessed from github.com/nkprasad12/lexica.
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• error, ōris, m. [id.], a wandering.
  1. I. In gen., a wandering, straying or strolling about (rare and mostly poet.).
    1. A. Lit.: ad quos Ceres in illo errore venisse dicitur, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, § 108: error ac dissipatio civium (sc. mercatorum), id. Rep. 2, 4, 7 Mos. (cf. erratio, I.): navium pars ex errore eodem conferebatur, Auct. B. Afr. 11; cf. Ov. H. 16, 29; id. M. 14, 484; id. Tr. 4, 10, 100; Verg. A. 1, 755; 6, 532 et saep.—Transf., of the motion of atoms, Lucr. 2, 132; of the meanderings of rivers, Ov. M. 1, 582; of the mazes of the labyrinth, id. ib. 8, 161; 167.—
    2. B. Trop., a wavering, uncertainty: fluctuat incertis erroribus ardor amantum, Lucr. 4, 1077: nec, quid corde nunc consili capere possim, Scio, tantus cum cura meo est error animo, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 13; cf. Liv. 9, 15; 45; 27, 47; Ov. F. 5, 362 al.; so, too, with obj. gen.: viarum, uncertainty, ignorance, Liv. 24, 17; cf. veri, Tac. H. 2, 72.—
  2. II. In partic., a wandering from the right way, a going astray.
    1. A. Lit. (very seldom): reduxit me usque ex errore in viam, Plaut. Ps. 2, 3, 2; Curt. 5, 13 fin.—
    2. B. Trop., a departing from the truth, an error, mistake, delusion (class.; cf.: erratum, vitium, peccatum): erroris ego illos et. dementiae complebo, Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 8: opinionibus vulgi rapimur in errorem nec vera cernimus, Cic. Leg. 2, 17, 43; cf.: inducere imperitos in errorem, id. Brut. 85, 293; Nep. Hann. 9, 3: errore quodam fallimur in disputando, Cic. Rep. 3, 35: si errorem velis tollere, id. ib. 1, 24: errorem tollere, id. ib. 2, 10; id. Fin. 1, 11, 37: deponere, id. Phil. 8, 11, 32: eripere alicui, id. Att. 10, 4, 6: demere, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 140 et saep.: mentis, i. e. distraction, insanity, Cic. Att. 3, 13, 2; cf. Hor. A. P. 454; Verg. G. 3, 513; so poet. of other kinds of mental perturbation, as fear, Ov. F. 3, 555; love, Verg. E. 8, 41; Ov. Am. 1, 10, 9; cf. ib. 1, 2, 35; id. M. 10, 342: aut aliquis latet error; equo ne credite, Teucri, some deception, Verg. A. 2, 48; cf. Liv. 22, 1: par forma aut aetas errorem agnoscentibus fecerat, Tac. A. 4, 63: jaculum detulit error in Idam, Ov. M. 5, 90.—
          1. β. Esp., an error in language, a solecism, Quint. 1, 5, 47.—
          2. γ. Rarely a moral error, fault (cf. erro, I. B. 2.), Ov. Pont. 4, 8, 20; cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 57; 2, 3, 92.—
          3. δ. Error, personif., = Ἄτη, the inspirer of folly or judicial blindness, Ov. M. 12, 59.