MEMINISSE  ALICUJUS  REI  or  DE  ALIQUA  RE  often  signify  to  make
mention  of  a  thing.  Neque  omnino  hujus  rei  meminit  usquam  poe'ta.
Quint.  Ue  quibus  multi  meminerunt,  Id.,  Which  have  been  mentioned
ly  many. — MEMINISSE  ALIQUID  always  signifies  remembrance.  Om-
nia  alicujus  facta  et  dicta  meminisse.  Cic.  Forsan  et  haec  olim  me-
minisse juvabit.  Virg.
1621.  Memoralilis.  Memorandus.
MEMORABILIS,  memorable,  Jit  to  be  mentioned  or  remembered.  Hoc-
cine  credibile  est,  aut  memorabile  ?  Ter.  Gloriosa  et  memorabilis
virtus.  Cic. — MEMOKANDUS,  that  ought  to  be  told  or  recorded.  Nee
memoranda  tamen  vobis  mea  facta,  Pelasgi,  esse  reor.  Ovid.
1622.  Menda.  Mendum.
MEND  A  u  particularly  said  of  the  defects  of  the  body.  Eximere  men-
das  de  corpore.  Ovid.  In  toto  nusquam  corpore  menda  fuit.  Id.  Fa-
cies  menda  caret.  Id. — MENDUM,  a  fault,  a  mistake,  an  error  in  writ-
ing or  printing.  Quod  mendum  ista  litura  correxit?  Cic.  Menda
librariorum  tolluntur.  Id.  //  is  said  of  a  defect,  of  an  imperfection.
Itaque  me  idus  Martiac  non  tarn  consolantur,  quam  antea;  ir.agnum
enim  mendum  continent.  Cic.
1623.  Mendacium.  Falsitas.
MENDACIUM,  an  untruth  said  designedly  with  an  intent  of  deceiv-
ing, a  lie.  Improbi  hominis  est  mendacio  fallere.  Cic.  Mendacium
neque  dicebat,  neque  pati  poterat.  C.  Nep.  Figuratively :  a  disguise.
Mendacia  forma'.  Ovid.  Mendacio  staturam  adjuvare.  Sen. —  FAL-
SITAS,  falsity,  falsehood.  Sicut  aliis  in  locis  parum  firmamenti,  et
parum  virium  falsitas  habet,  sic  in  hoc  loco  falsa  invidia  imbecilla


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esse  debet.  Cic.   Mendacium  supposes  a  knowledge  of  the  existing  fal-
sity;  Int  falsitas  may  be  the  effect  of  ignorance.
1624.  Mendax.  Mendosus.
