mislead Copy link Outline 1. dēcĭpio, cēpi, ceptum, 32. more precisely, expr. by error, with various verbs • mislead: 1. dēcĭpio, cēpi, ceptum, 3: the ambiguity which misled Croesus, illa amphibolia quae Croesum decepit, Cic. Div. 2, 56, extr.: we are misled by the show of right, decipimur specie recti, Hor. A. P. 25: v. to deceive. 2. more precisely, expr. by error, with various verbs: e. g. [imperitos] in errorem inducere, Cic. Br. 85, 293; in errorem ducere, Nep. Hann. 9: to be misled by popular opinions, vulgi opinionibus in errorem rapi, [nec vera cernere], Cic. Leg. 2, 17, 43: to be so far misled as to suppose ..., hoc errore duci, ut quis arbitretur ..., id. Off. 1, 41, 148.