falsify Copy link Outline 1. corrumpo, rūpi, ruptum, 3 (to tamper with)2. interlĭno, lēvi, lĭtum, 33. vĭtio, 1 (to tamper with) • falsify: 1. corrumpo, rūpi, ruptum, 3 (to tamper with): to f. public documents, tabulas (literas) publicas c., Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 42, 104: to f. the bonds of debtors, debitorum chirographa c., Ulp. Dig.: to f. the standard measures of wine, c. mensuras publice probatas vini, Modest. Dig.: Vell. 2. interlĭno, lēvi, lĭtum, 3: to f. (by obliterating the writing of the wax tablets) a will, testamentum int., Cic. Clu. 44, 125. 3. vĭtio, 1 (to tamper with): the decrees of the senate were suppressed and f.'d at the will of the consuls, senatus consulta arbitrio consulum supprimebantur vitiabanturque, Liv. 3, 55, ad fin.: to f. writings, scripturas v., Ulp. Dig.: to f. the indications of the comitia, comitiorum significationes v., Cic. Sext. 54, 115: v. to forge, counterfeit. N.B.--The subs. falsification may be expressed by an inf., ger. or participle of the above verbs: as, he was pronounced guilty of the f. of public documents, judicatus est publicas tabulas corrupisse, Cic.: on account of his f. of public documents, *propter corruptas, vitiatas, tabulas publicas: concerning the f. of public documents, *de publicis tabulis corrumpendis, vitiandis: v. supr.
FALSIFY Copy link • FALSIFYcorrumpere (to corrupt by an internal change of quality): vitiare (to make faulty; pecunias, merces): adulterare (to falsify by the admixture of what is not genuine; e.g., numos, merces): interpolare (to give anything a good appearance by dressing it up, as it were, by spurious additions; merces): transcribere (to falsify in copying). To falsify documents, tabulas corrumpere, vitiare (general terms); tabulas interpolare (by erasing letters, and introducing others neatly, so as to be likely to avoid detection); tabulas interlinere (to erase [PROP. in wax] words from between other words; or to erase words so completely as to conceal, if possible, the fact of any having originally stood there); (The words are found in this connection and order.) tabulas corrumpere atque interlinere; tabulas transcribere (to falsify it in transcription; write it wrong): to falsify a will; Vid: “to FORGE a will.” To falsify one’s word, etc., fidem fallere, mutare, frustrari, non servare: fidem frangere, violare.