falsehood Copy link Outline 1. commentum (a made up story)2. mendācium • falsehood: 1. commentum (a made up story): Ter.: Cic.: v. fiction. 2. mendācium: v. lie.
FALSEHOOD Copy link • FALSEHOODs. Falseness, vanitas, or by circumlocution with adjectives; e.g., to prove the falsehood of anything, aliquid falsum esse probare (Quint.). ☞ Falsitas is not found till Arnobius; modern editors discard it from Cic., Cluent., 2. A false thing, falsum: vanum: mendacium (a lie): not to utter a falsehood, nihil falsi dicere; non mentiri; verum dicere. Vid: LIE.