The corpus record — Latin

fallacia

fallacia · f

deceit

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Pseudolus 8 · 7.23/10k
Captivi 6 · 6.93/10k
Andria 6 · 6.09/10k
Heautontimorumenos 6 · 5.46/10k
De Anima 12 · 5.05/10k
Poenulus 5 · 4.53/10k
Asinaria 3 · 3.71/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 3 · 3.61/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
De Scorpiace 2 · 2.51/10k

Densest 12 of 57 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

fallācĭa — Lewis & Short

fallācĭa, ae (f.fallax,

abl. also fallacie, App. M. 5, p. 171),

I deceit, trick, artifice, stratagem, craft, intrigue (class.; in Cic. only plur.; syn.: fraus, dolus, astus, astutia, calliditas).

I Prop.

(a) Plur.: nonne ab imis unguibus usque ad verticem summum ex fraude, fallaciis, mendaciis constare totus videtur? Cic. Rosc. Com. 7, 20: doli, machinae, fallaciae, praestigiae, id. N. D. 3, 29, 73: fraudes atque fallaciae, id. Clu. 36, 101: simulatione et fallaciis, id. de Or. 2, 46, 191: sine fuco ac fallaciis, id. Att. 1, 1, 1: quot admoenivi fabricas! quot fallacias! Plaut. Cist. 2, 2, 5.—So in plur., Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 13; 16; 20; id. Mil. 2, 2, 37 et saep.—

(b) Sing.: per malitiam et per dolum et fallaciam, Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 15; id. Capt. prol. 40; 46; 2, 1, 25; id. As. 1, 1, 54; 2, 1, 2; 4 al.; Phaedr. 1, 31, 5; 3, 16, 10: ausculta quod superest fallaciae, Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 23; Suet. Tib. 62; Flor. 1, 16, 7 al.—Of magical art, Prop. 1, 1, 19 al.—Prov.: fallacia alia aliam trudit, one lie begets another, Ter. And. 4, 4, 39.—

II Of things: haec ipsa res habet aliquam fallaciam, deception, Col. 11, 2, 68: peccati, Vulg. Hebr. 3, 13; cf. id. Matt. 13, 22.

In the wild

fallaciis Cicero, Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 20
fallacia Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.5.11
fallacia Plautus, Poenulus 3.5
fallaciis Plautus, Truculentus 4.4
fallaciam Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.11.16.7
fallaciis Plautus, Pseudolus 4.7

6 of 140 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.