menda
menda, ae, f. v. mendum, a fault, defect, blemish of the body (poet. and postAug.). Lit.: in toto nusquam corpore menda fuit, Ov. Am. 1, 5, 18: nocte latent mendae, id. A. A. 1, 249.— Transf., a mistake, error, blunder, in writing, in books, a slip of the pen, Suet. Aug. 87: mendae istins indoles, Gell. 20, 6, 14; 1, 7, 3.
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Intro Text:
menda, ae, f. v. mendum, a fault, defect, blemish of the body (poet. and postAug.). Lit.: in toto nusquam corpore menda fuit, Ov. Am. 1, 5, 18: nocte latent mendae, id. A. A. 1, 249.— Transf., a mistake, error, blunder, in writing, in books, a slip of the pen, Suet. Aug. 87: mendae istins indoles, Gell. 20, 6, 14; 1, 7, 3.
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