fabrication Copy link Outline I. Lit., the making of somethingII. Fig., a fictitious statement1. mendācium2. commentum (something ingeniously put together)3. fābŭla (a mere story) • fabrication: I. Lit., the making of something: fabrĭcātio: Cic.: v. formation. II. Fig., a fictitious statement: 1. mendācium: v. lie, falsehood. 2. commentum (something ingeniously put together): Cic.: Liv.: v. fiction. 3. fābŭla (a mere story): he is beginning a f., fabulam inceptat, Ter. Andr. 5, 4, 22: v. fable (I.) Phr.: the audacious f.s of Greece, quidquid Graecia mendax audet [in historia], Juv.