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mendosus

mendosus · adj

Full of faults, fauity

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Where it lives

Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
De Architectura 3 · 0.52/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mendōsus — Lewis & Short

mendōsus, a, um, adj.mendum.

I Full of faults, fauity.

A Physically, full of faults or blemishes: equi facies, Ov. M. 12, 399.—

B In gen., erroneous, incorrect (class.): mendosum exemplar testamenti, Plin. Ep. 10, 75: mendosum est, etc., Cic. de Or. 2, 19, 83: mores, Ov. Am. 2, 4, 1.—Comp.: historia mendosior, Cic. Brut. 16, 62.—

II Transf.

A That commits faults, makes mistakes: cur servus societatis, qui tabulas conficeret, semper in Verrucii nomine certo ex loco mendosus esset, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 77, § 188.—

B False, deceptive: mendosum for mendose, adverbially, falsely: mendosum tinnire, Pers. 5, 106.—Hence, adv.: mendōsē, full of faults, faultily, falsely (class.): libri mendose scribuntur, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 5, 6: mendose colligis, Pers. 5, 85.— Sup.: ars mendosissime scripta, Cic. Inv. 1, 6, 8.

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