Conscia mens recti famæ mendacia risit=--The mind conscious of integrity ever scorns the lies of rumour.
Valeant mendacia vatum=--Away with the fictions of poets!
Tarrant points out to me the parallel problem at Met IX 711 'indecepta pia mendacia fraude latebant', where context requires indecepta to have the meaning 'undetected'.
It is indeed a superb variety, and quite throws into the shade some Mendacia which we were used to regard with admiration.
And the wise Solomon makes this answer to those who asserted similar errors, in the 33d chapter of Ecclesiasticus,—‘Quod divinatio erroris, et arguta mendacia et somnia maleficiorum vanitas est.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mendacia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
