An errour: a false opinson: a taking of falsehoode for truch: a wandring. Error & insania. Hor. Virtus & Error opponuntur. Hor. In magnis tenebris erroris & inscientiæ. Cic. Nebula er roris. Iuuen. The clowde of errour. Nominum error manet. Liu. They erre stil in the names and knowe not which is which. Ambiguus error. Stat. Cæcus. Sen. Dubius. Virg. Falsus. Plin. Grauis. Sen. Fanaticus. Hor. Honestus error. Quint. Infandus error. Val. Flac. Ingens. Quint. Irreuocandus. Claud. Malus. Virg. The doting pang of loue. Nubilus insciriæ error. Boethius. Perplexus. Stat. Prophanus error animi. Claud. Sacri vatum errores. Sil. Simplex error. Quint. Temerarius error. Ouid. Turbulenti errores. Cic. Vagus. Lucan. Vanus error. Stat. Adiuuare alterius errorem. Cice. To helpe to amende ones errour. Afficere mentis errore. Cic. To make to erre: to make mad. Suus cuique attributus est error. Catul. Auserre errores alicuius. Ouid. To put out of errour: to declare wherein he was deceiued. Erroribus cæcari aut cupiditate. Cicero. To be blinded with errour. Captus errore. Cic. In an errour: deceiued. Coarguere errorem alicuius. Cic. Confiteri errores suos. Quint. Errorem creat similitudo. Cice. The likenes causeth mistaking. Decipit error. Ouid. Deferri in errorem. Cic. To fal into errour. Demere alicui mentis errorem. Hor. Depellere errorem. Cic. Deponere errorem suum. Cic. To leaue their errour. Detrahere errorem alicui. Oui. To open the truth to one & put him out of errour. Duci errore. Cic. To erre: to be in errout: to mistake. Effugere errorem aliorum. Lucr. To flie and eschue. Eripere errorem alicui. Cic. To shew one the truth and wherein he is deceiued. Ab errore euellere aliquem. Cic To pul from. Fluctuat incertis erroribus ardor amantum. Lucr. Fluitans errore. Lucr. Flitting in errour. Illudit error. Hor. Errour deceiueth them. Mentes imbutæ prauitatis erroribus. Cic. Erroribus implicari. Cic. To be wrapped in erroures. Incutere errorem. Cic. To make to erre. Inducere in errorem. Cic. To bring into errour. Inflatus errore. Cic. Puffed vp in ignoraunce. Quantum animis erroris inest. Ouid. Lapsus errore. Qui. That hath done amisse by ignoraunce or mistaking. Lapsum esse per errorem. Cic. Idem. Liberare animos errore. Cic. Erroribus mederi. Plin. To amend errors. Natus error. Cic. An errour risen. Nocens error. Sen. Obiectus error alicui. Cic. Pendere ex errore imperitæ multitudinis. Cic. To depend vpon the corrupt iudgement of the common people. Opinionibus vulgi rapimur in errorem. Cic. Recipere errorem. Quint. Sublato errore. Lucan. Cum mulieris lacte suximus errorem. Cicer. We sucked errour with our mothers first milke. In magno errore sunt qui sandareson vocant. Pl. They be greatly dcceiued. Tardare errorem aliqua re. Propertius. To finde delayes in a thing. Tantus tenet error amantem. Ouid. So greately doth the louer mistake the thing. Teneri malo errore. Virg To be in a great errour. Errore aliquo trahi. Ouid. Idem. In summo errore, atque in maxima rerum ignoratione versari. Cic. Idem. To be foule deceiued. Versatur magnus error. Cic. Error. Virg. Deceit. Aut aliquis later error, equo ne credire Teucri. Virg. Errores Vlyssis. Cic. Vlysses his wandrings or tranailes. Errore viarum. Liu. By ignorance of the way, or by going out of the way. Feri errores nemorum. Stat. Indeprehensus & irremeabilis error Labyrinthi. Virgil. The winding and turning of the maze that no man can perceiue and find out againe. Inexplicabilis viarum error. Plin. An vnsearchable winding and turning of waies. Inextricabilis error. Virg. Inobseruabilis error Labyrinthi. Catul. Vagus error. Val. Flac. A wild wandring abroade. Longis agi erroribus. Oui. To go wandring into farre countries. Diffugiunt quò quenque agit error. Ouid. Viæ errore actus. Virg. Deceptus nouo errore veterum locorum. Virg. Ducere in errorem viarum. Ouid. To bring to a fashion of a wandring maze. Implicita errore via. Lucan. P alantes error in syluis certo de tramite pellit. Hor.

I. In gen., a wandering, straying or strolling about (rare and mostly poet.).

A. Lit.: ad quos Ceres m illo errore venisse dicitur, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49, 108: error ac dissipatio civium (sc. mercatorum), id. Rep. 2, 4, 7 Mos. (cf. erratio, I.): navium pars ex errore eodem conferebatur, Auct. B. Afr. 11; cf. Ov. H. 16, 29; id. M. 14, 484; id. Tr. 4, 10, 100; Verg. A. 1, 755; 6, 532 et saep.—Transf., of the motion of atoms, Lucr. 2, 132; of the meanderings of rivers, Ov. M. 1, 582; of the mazes of the labyrinth, id. ib. 8, 161; 167.—

B. Trop., a wavering, uncertainty: fluctuat incertis erroribus ardor amantum, Lucr. 4, 1077: nec, quid corde nunc consili capere possim, Scio, tantus cum cura meo est error animo, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 13; cf. Liv. 9, 15; 45; 27, 47; Ov. F. 5, 362 al.; so, too, with obj. gen.: viarum, uncertainty, ignorance, Liv. 24, 17; cf. veri, Tac. H. 2, 72.—

II. In partic., a wandering from the right way, a going astray.

A. Lit. (very seldom): reduxit me usque ex errore in viam, Plaut. Ps. 2, 3, 2; Curt. 5, 13 fin.—

B. Trop., a departing from the truth, an error, mistake, delusion (class.; cf.: erratum, vitium, peccatum): erroris ego illos et. dementiae complebo, Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 8: opinionibus vulgi rapimur in errorem nec vera cernimus, Cic. Leg. 2, 17, 43; cf.: inducere imperitos in errorem, id. Brut. 85, 293; Nep. Hann. 9, 3: errore quodam fallimur in disputando, Cic. Rep. 3, 35: si errorem velis tollere, id. ib. 1, 24: errorem tollere, id. ib. 2, 10; id. Fin. 1, 11, 37: deponere, id. Phil. 8, 11, 32: eripere alicui, id. Att. 10, 4, 6: demere, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 140 et saep.: mentis, i. e. distraction, insanity, Cic. Att. 3, 13, 2; cf. Hor. A. P. 454; Verg. G. 3, 513; so poet. of other kinds of mental perturbation, as fear, Ov. F. 3, 555; love, Verg. E. 8, 41; Ov. Am. 1, 10, 9; cf. ib. 1, 2, 35; id. M. 10, 342: aut aliquis latet error; equo ne credite, Teucri, some deception, Verg. A. 2, 48; cf. Liv. 22, 1: par forma aut aetas errorem agnoscentibus fecerat, Tac. A. 4, 63: jaculum detulit error in Idam, Ov. M. 5, 90.—

(b). Esp., an error in language, a solecism, Quint. 1, 5, 47.—

(g). Rarely a moral error, fault (cf. erro, I. B. 2.), Ov. Pont. 4, 8, 20; cf. id. ib. 2, 2, 57; 2, 3, 92.—

(d). Error, personif., = *)/ath, the inspirer of folly or judicial blindness, Ov. M. 12, 59.