SLANDER Copy link • SLANDER 1. s. calumnia (false accusation): criminatio (the traducing anybody’s character). 2. v. calumniari (to accuse falsely and with malignant intention): falso criminari aliquem apud aliquem: de fama or existimatione alicujus detrahere: male dicere alicui: absentem rodere (Hor.): de aliquo absente detrahendi causa maledlce contumelioseque dicere (Cic., Off., 1, 37, 134): alicui absenti male loqui (Terentianus, Phorm., 2, 3, 25). I am slandered, detrahitur de mea fama.