go astray Copy link Outline 1. erro, 12. lābor, psus, 3 (in fig. sense) • go astray: 1. erro, 1: to show the road to one who goes a., erranti monstrare viam, Cic. For fig. sense, v. to err. Simly, the comps., deerro, aberro, which are used both lit. and fig.: to go a. from the (right) road, itinere deerrare, Quint. 10, 3, 29; in itinere d., Cic. in Lact. 6, 24, init.: to go a. from the law of nature, a regula naturae aberrare, Cic. Acad. 2, 46, 140: v. to wander. 2. lābor, psus, 3 (in fig. sense): v. to err.