5. Truth—Error

_verum dicere, profiteri_—to speak the truth, admit the truth.

_omnia ad veritatem_[1] _dicere_—to be truthful in all one's statements.

_veritatis amans, diligens, studiosus_—truthful; veracious.

_a vero aversum esse_ (Catil. 3. 1. 29)—to be averse to truth.

_a veritate deflectere, desciscere_—to swerve from the truth.

_veri videndi, investigandi cupiditas_—love of truth.

_veri inquisitio atque investigatio_—zealous pursuit of truth.

_a vero abduci_—to be led away from the truth.

_proxime ad verum accedere_—to be very near the truth.

_a vero non abhorrere_—to be probable.

_veri simile esse_—to be probable.

_haec speciosiora quam veriora sunt_—this is more plausible than true.

_vera et falsa (a falsis) diiudicare_—to distinguish true and false.

_vera cum falsis confundere_—to confuse true with false.

_veritas_—veracity.

_re (vera), reapse_ (opp. _specie_)—in truth; really.

_in errore versari_—to be mistaken.

_magno errore teneri_—to be in gross error, seriously misled.

_in magno errore versari_—to be in gross error, seriously misled.

_vehementer errare_—to be in gross error, seriously misled.

_erroribus implicari_ (Tusc. 4. 27. 58)—to fall into error.

_per errorem labi_, or simply _labi_—to take a false step.

_aliquem in errorem inducere, rapere_—to lead a person into error.

_errorem animo imbibere_—to get a mistaken notion into the mind.

_errorem cum lacte nutricis sugere_ (Tusc. 3. 1. 2)—to imbibe error

from one's mother's breasts.

_error longe lateque diffusus_—a wide-spread error.

_errorem tollere_—to banish an error, do away with a false impression.

_errorem amputare et circumcīdere_—to banish an error, do away with a

false impression.

_errorem stirpitus extrahere_—to totally eradicate false principles.

_errorem deponere, corrigere_—to amend, correct one's mistake.

_alicui errorem demere, eripere, extorquere_—to undeceive a person.

_nisi fallor_—if I am not mistaken.

_nisi (animus) me fallit_—if I am not mistaken.

_nisi omnia me fallunt_—unless I'm greatly mistaken.

[1] _verum_ = the truth, concrete; _veritas_ = truth in the abstract.

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