Significatio vocis fallo | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. to deceive, beguile, trick, cheat, delude, ensnare, disappoint
   conjugation-3
2. to mistake, be mistaken, deceive oneself
   conjugation-3, reflexive
3. to escape the notice of; be unknown, unseen, unaware, hidden
   conjugation-3
4. to appease, beguile
   conjugation-3
5. to swear falsely, perjure
   conjugation-3

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“At rēgīna dolōs – quis fallere possit amantem? – praesēnsit …. But the queen suspected his deceit – Who could be able to delude a lover? – ….”

(The irony is that a lover can be both extremely perceptive and easily misled.)

“Si enim fallor, sum⟳. Nam qui non est, utique nec falli potest; ac per hoc sum⟳, si fallor. Quia ergo sum⟳ si fallor, quo modo esse me fallor, quando certum est me esse, si fallor? Quia igitur essem qui fallerer, etiamsi fallerer, procul dubio in eo quod me novi esse, non fallor.”

Translation by David S. Wiesen Well, if I am mistaken, I exist. For a man who does not exist can surely not be mistaken either, and if I am mistaken, therefore I exist. So, since I am if I am mistaken, how can I be mistaken in believing that I am when it is certain that if I am mistaken I am. Therefore, from the fact that, if I were indeed mistaken, I should have to exist to be mistaken, it follows that I am undoubtedly not mistaken in knowing that I am.

““Nec mē adeō fallit veritam tē moenia nostra”

“Nor does it so escape me that you, fearing our defenses, have distrusted the homes of lofty Carthage.” (Juno uses the negation of litotes to speak to Venus.)

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